Author: ccexplore

Description:
The external link syntax

[target]

only does autonumbering for http: and https: URLs, as tested on the MediaWiki sandbox
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Sandbox). For other schemes, the syntax above gets rendered
without autonumbering, as if using the inline target syntax without the brackets.

The MediaWiki handbook's section on external links (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:URL)
provides no information on which schemes have auto-numbering support. It reads:

<tt>A link in external link style can be of the forms:

target: http://meta.wikimedia.org/ is rendered as http://meta.wikimedia.org/
[ target label ], with a blank space in between: [http://meta.wikimedia.org/ wikimedia] gives
wikimedia (see also Help:Piped link)
[ target ] - these are automatically labelled with serial numbers 1, 2, 3, ...:
[http://meta.wikimedia.org/] gives [1]
The target is a URL which can start with "http://" or "ftp://";</tt>

This description would at a minimum lead to the expectation that autonumbering should apply to http
and ftp, which is not the case.

Personally for my use I would like ftp links to be auto-numbered as well. I don't understand why
auto-numbering shouldn't be uniformly applied to all supported URLs.

(Aside: I'm unable to determine what version of MediaWiki the meta.wikimedia.org website uses,
hence "unspecified version" is entered for Version field of this bug report.)

Version: 1.7.x
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC