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75: 172:– this script places a link in your Tools sidebar, and when clicked while on an article page, opens a dialog box containing all VE-style numeric references on the page, along with proposed Lastname-YYYY replacement names. It knows how to disambiguate collisions, and you can override to any named reference of your choice. A powerful tool, able to change hundreds of numeric references on a page. Presents a 391: 396: 368: 249: 221: 415: 401: 444: 384: 379: 253: 150: 146:. In general, the set of MediaWiki pages are more up to date, and WMF members tend to look at and possibly respond at the pages there more than at Knowledge (XXG). 363: 127:
Currently, VE automatically adds numeric ref names with a colon prefix, i.e., ":0", ":1", ":2", and so on. There has long been interest in having VE support
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in need of adjustment. The following link will generate a search result page containing up to 50 articles with VE numeric ref names:
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to allow the user to name references was rejected for being too complex while the foundation proposed
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m:Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Editing/VisualEditor should use human-like names for references
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m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Editing/VisualEditor should use proper names for references
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Knowledge (XXG) talk:Citing sources/Archive 47#Visual Editor and Numerical reference names
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this page to generate a different list of articles from the link, every time you purge.
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m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Citations/VisualEditor: Allow references to be named
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This is a Knowledge (XXG) project page for those interested in the topic of allowing
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Click any result, to view an article that could use improvement with RefRenamer.
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Knowledge (XXG) talk:Citing sources/Archive 40#Tech Talk on Zotero and citations
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mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Design/Reference Dialog/Archive 1#Named references
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m:Community Tech/Status report for 2019 wishlist#Named References in VE
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m:Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Status report 1#Named References in VE
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that could be accepted if submitted in another wishlist survey.
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mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide#Re-using an existing reference
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m:Community Tech/Allow references to be named in VisualEditor
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an alternate proposal of better automatic reference names
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Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once
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m:Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Editing/VisualEditor
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searching open Phabricator tickets about VisualEditor
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Knowledge (XXG):VisualEditor
Main
FAQ
User Guide
Named refs
Updates
Newsletter
MediaWiki
MediaWiki
Shortcuts
WP:VE:NAMEDREFS
WP:VE/NAMEDREFS
WP:VECRUFT
named references
meaningful named references
Knowledge (XXG):VisualEditor
numerous subpages
mw:VisualEditor
raise a Phabricator ticket
searching open Phabricator tickets about VisualEditor
RefRenamer
preview pane
diff
VE-style numeric references
RefRenamer
advanced search
VE-style numeric references
generate search result page with VE numeric names
Purge server cache
Purge

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