Community Tech/Allow references to be named in VisualEditor

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Proposed in the 2019 Wishlist Survey.

DescriptionEdit

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.

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