[Bug 57459] VisualEditor: Automatic naming scheme for references produces meaningless names like ref name=:0

2014-10-23 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459 Alex Monk kren...@wikimedia.org changed: What|Removed |Added Status|ASSIGNED|RESOLVED

[Bug 57459] VisualEditor: Automatic naming scheme for references produces meaningless names like ref name=:0

2014-02-28 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459 James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org changed: What|Removed |Added Assignee|rm...@wikimedia.org

[Bug 57459] VisualEditor: Automatic naming scheme for references produces meaningless names like ref name=:0

2013-11-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459 James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org changed: What|Removed |Added Priority|Unprioritized |Lowest

[Bug 57459] VisualEditor: Automatic naming scheme for references produces meaningless names like ref name=:0

2013-11-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459 --- Comment #2 from WhatamIdoing wmf.whatamido...@yahoo.com --- Why humans need to be able to remember the ref names: Because actual humans actually have to be able to remember the ref name if they're going to re-use it. They cannot re-use

[Bug 57459] VisualEditor: Automatic naming scheme for references produces meaningless names like ref name=:0

2013-11-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459 --- Comment #3 from WhatamIdoing wmf.whatamido...@yahoo.com --- I realize that any automagic system will have serious limitations, compared to prompting users for a human-created name (which VisualEditor ought to be doing). But a semi-random

[Bug 57459] VisualEditor: Automatic naming scheme for references produces meaningless names like ref name=:0

2013-11-25 Thread bugzilla-daemon
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459 --- Comment #4 from James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org --- Speaking as an extensive editor, I just find the exist reference I want to re-use and manually copy the name; this is no extra work in VE. Clearly some people try to remember the