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**Author:** `cyril.buttay` **Description:** Hi, I'm struggling with figure and equation numbering in articles, because it has to be done manually at the moment. An automatic numbering system in the way of the cite.php extension would make it a lot simpler and would avoid errors when modifying an article. An identical system for equations would also be great. The LaTeX code for this is very simple (at least from the user point of view!): the `\label{<nameoftheanchor}` command is used in the equation or the figure (and is respectively replaced during compilation by "(1)" or "Fig. 1") and the command `\ref{<nameoftheanchor>}` is placed wherever you need to refer to the label (and is respectively replaced at compilation-time by "(1)" or "figure 1"). I have no real idea of the amount of work such an extension would require (I had a look at Cite.php, and I can imagine it is quite a lot...), but I think it is of great importance for long Wikipedia articles (and might even be mandatory for Wikibooks!). What do you think? Cyril

**Author:** `cyril.buttay` **Description:** Hi, I'm struggling with figure and equation numbering in articles, because it has to be done manually at the moment. An automatic numbering system in the way of the cite.php extension would make it a lot simpler and would avoid errors when modifying an article. An identical system for equations would also be great. The LaTeX code for this is very simple (at least from the user point of view!): the `\label{<nameoftheanchor}` command is used in the equation or the figure (and is respectively replaced during compilation by "(1)" or "Fig. 1") and the command `\ref{<nameoftheanchor>}` is placed wherever you need to refer to the label (and is respectively replaced at compilation-time by "(1)" or "figure 1"). I have no real idea of the amount of work such an extension would require (I had a look at Cite.php, and I can imagine it is quite a lot...), but I think it is of great importance for long Wikipedia articles (and might even be mandatory for Wikibooks!). What do you think? Cyril ----- **Merged duplicate**: Sometimes pictures (tabulars, equations, etc.) are not described properly in the text. (=cannot directly be refered to, therefore...) It is sometimes hard to figure out which picture is meant. Reader of Wikipedia would benefit, because the picture which is described is named unambiguously. Editors of Wikipedia will have an easy to use tool to address a certain picture in the text. How is this problem being addressed now? Sometimes the pictures are numbered by the editors. This is inconvenient, when there are a lot of pictures in one article, and more pictures are added somewhere in the middle of the article. What are the proposed solutions? Each picture, which should get a number, is marked with a label-tag. One can now address the picture by addressing to the label-tag. This is similar to the references numbering in wikipedia and the picture numbering in latex. --Boehm (talk) 23:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC) This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey This proposal received 13 support votes, and was ranked #56 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Multimedia#Automatic_numbering_of_pictures

**Author:** `cyril.buttay` **Description:** Hi, I'm struggling with figure and equation numbering in articles, because it has to be done manually at the moment. An automatic numbering system in the way of the cite.php extension would make it a lot simpler and would avoid errors when modifying an article. An identical system for equations would also be great. The LaTeX code for this is very simple (at least from the user point of view!): the `\label{<nameoftheanchor}` command is used in the equation or the figure (and is respectively replaced during compilation by "(1)" or "Fig. 1") and the command `\ref{<nameoftheanchor>}` is placed wherever you need to refer to the label (and is respectively replaced at compilation-time by "(1)" or "figure 1"). I have no real idea of the amount of work such an extension would require (I had a look at Cite.php, and I can imagine it is quite a lot...), but I think it is of great importance for long Wikipedia articles (and might even be mandatory for Wikibooks!). What do you think? Cyril ----- **Merged duplicate**: Sometimes pictures (tabulars, equations, etc.) are not described properly in the text. (=cannot directly be refered to, therefore...) It is sometimes hard to figure out which picture is meant. Reader of Wikipedia would benefit, because the picture which is described is named unambiguously. Editors of Wikipedia will have an easy to use tool to address a certain picture in the text. How is this problem being addressed now? Sometimes the pictures are numbered by the editors. This is inconvenient, when there are a lot of pictures in one article, and more pictures are added somewhere in the middle of the article. What are the proposed solutions? Each picture, which should get a number, is marked with a label-tag. One can now address the picture by addressing to the label-tag. This is similar to the references numbering in wikipedia and the picture numbering in latex. --Boehm (talk) 23:39, 9 November 2015 (UTC) This card tracks a proposal from the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey This proposal received 13 support votes, and was ranked #56 out of 107 proposals. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Multimedia#Automatic_numbering_of_pictures