Just wondering: when external url's are used in a page, why are they numbered? That is, why is this:
displayed as this:
[1]
?
I imagine that once this was a useful behaviour, before we had proper referencing tools, so they kind of looked like footnotes. But there's no list of these URLs generated anywhere, so what purpose does it serve?
Would it perhaps be tidier to display something like a tiny [url] or [link] or something?
Steve PS I'm bringing this up on this list, rather than mediawiki or wikitech, as it's a question of deciding what we actually want.