https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459

--- Comment #2 from WhatamIdoing <[email protected]> ---
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 the ref any other way.

This is true for everyone now, because VisualEditor is only showing (at most)
the ref names when you try to re-use a ref, which means that anyone trying to
re-use a ref currently needs to know whether the ref they want to re-use ref
name :0, :1, :2, :3, :4, :5, etc.—sometimes through a dozen or more meaningless
numbers.

This is true permanently for anyone not using VisualEditor, because there is no
other way to re-use a ref in the wikitext editor except to manually type (or
copy) the name of the ref.

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