For large works with many sections (especially periodicals and reference works, but also books), it would convenient to be able to specify a label for a given page to ease navigation via the index page, without changing the page number that is displayed on transclusion. Right now, this is "kinda" possible with multiple page lists, but it's clunky and ugly and it totally breaks the visual pagelist editor. Eg: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Ferrier%27s_Works_Volume_3_%22Philosophical_Remains%22_(1883_ed.).djvu

It would be nice if there could be a syntax something like:

<pagelist 
 100=1
 L100="Section 1"
/>

and then "Section 1" is shown in the page list as a plain text label, but page 100 in the file still shows as [1] for the page number. For example, something like this: