This is a prerequisite before any work related to T52568 (being able
to manually name references in VisualEditor) can start.
Why these names should not be hidden:
* We don't know if the name is actually part of the auto-generated
sequence in the current article or copy-pasted from somewhere else.
* Manually given names that start with a colon are currently hidden
even if they are unrelated to the auto-generated sequence.
* The information is highly relevant for users switching between VE
and wikitext. Especially when a reference is used multiple times
the relevant wikitext can be as short as <ref name=":0" />. The
literally only information in this case is the number.
Since these numbers are still more technical than anything we make
them very dim to emphasize the contrast to non-numeric names.
Bug: T52568
Bug: T92432
Change-Id: I65cb6998cb5f8659cd9043f3d4aaeac1c5f69da8
This code has been developed over three years now in the repo of MediaWiki's
integration of VisualEditor. It has grown and developed significantly during
that time, but now is pretty stable. A number of hacks inside the MediaWiki-
VisualEditor code base have been used to prevent this code from being loaded
on wikis where the Cite extension is not deployed, but this state of affairs
is and always was meant to be temporary.
This code is under the MIT licence which is a tad messy, but not impossible.
It's clearly labelled as such. The list of authors has been updated to take
into account the influx of new functionality.
Bug: T41621
Bug: T104928
Change-Id: I39936ed83d5a60471a0a75da753f498e80aef234
