[WikiEN-l] Why are URLs numbered?

[Steve Bennett]

On 9/5/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> That will mangle attempts to do standard administrative history and
> link references in the context of an inline discussion on a talk or
> notice page, though...

That's because the referencing section isn't flexible enough (yet).
It's also not possible to have multiple footnotes sections, for
example. Perhaps some more magic words would help:

{{EXPANDREFS}} - render <ref>foo</ref> as [foo] or something, until
further notice.
{{URLSTOREFS}} - automatically convert [http://foo.com] to something
like <ref>http://foo.com</ref>. This would solve the problem of talk
pages, as that tag wouldn't be present on the talk page, so it would
render normally...

(that second magic word might have to be reworded, it's pretty unreadable :)

Steve