(Please forget the precedinng message)
I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with this.
One
is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible to
add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases
where people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted
list and bold where semantically a dl would have been better.
One other problem is that it’s hard to differentiate a multiline definition from multiple définitions
Yes, technical solution would help of course, a more visible UI trick to build glossaries would help. But I think a more fundamental thinking about current status of glossaries or other stuffs with a legend/definition would be a good thing to work with this largely unknown wikitext and HTML feature. «:» is known … to indent, and «;» is knows … to bolden. But it’s not understood as a way to build a list of answer to a post …