Community Tech/Allow references to be named in VisualEditor

This page documents a project the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team may work on in future. Development of this project has not yet been prioritized.

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Proposed in the 2019 Wishlist Survey.

Description

Problem: One cannot enter a name for a reference in the VisualEditor. When references are used multiple times, VE automatically assigns ":0", ":1", etc. as names.

Status updates

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Important links

• Wishlist proposal, discussion and votes
• Phabricator ticket(s): task T52568, task T92432