@epriestley, thanks for the examples. The second variant would offer the best ergonomics for copy / pasting, but of course it would also change the rendering of the heading.

Concretely, since this is presumably about the WMF install and you already maintain patches, this is the one-line edit required to make the change you're asking for:

@epriestley: Plain HTML copy / paste works with most WYSIWYG editors, both online and offline. It is also a lot more discoverable, as people are used to it just working.

I frequently link to phabricator tasks on wiki pages or in google docs. The current workflow to get a linked task number or title is rather cumbersome: