https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57459
--- Comment #3 from WhatamIdoing <[email protected]> --- 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 string of letters is actually easier for most people to remember than a purely incremental number. <ref name="sgd1"> and <ref name="iuo2"> are easier to keep straight than <ref name=":1"> and <ref name=":2">—and <ref name="usc1"> and <ref name="lee2">, when the ref's contents actually meantion USC and Lee, are even easier. I don't understand how including some letters (taken from the ref's contents) in the ref name would fail to work anywhere, or at least would fail to work at any language that uses left-to-right typing (unless Arabic numbers are also typed right to left; I can imagine that combining RTL for letters with LTR for numbers would be irritating) and a non-IME/non-variant character set (which might also work just fine, but I don't know enough to have an opinion). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
