[Mediawiki-l] that awful <ref> syntax

[Thomas Dalton]

Would a parameter in the ref tag which stops it being displayed as a
superscript number (or letter, or whatever) and linked back to be
enough to fix this? It would allow all refs to be declared at the
bottom of the page and just <ref name="foo"/> to be included inline.
Refs could be put at the end of each paragraph rather than the bottom
of the page if the people working on a particular page wanted to do
so, of course.