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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
An example of a template that could be a usecase, in math :
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me
Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to
'enforce' a format?
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 …
2017-08-22 15:09 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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.
>
> An example o
>
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me
>
> 2017-08-22 13:47 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
>
>> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 12:22 +0200, Thomas Douillard wrote:
>> > Definition lists are underused.
>> >
>> > People usually prefers to format themselves to fit their preferences
>> > than to use the "; :„ syntax, or custom templates (theorem, examples,
>> > …)
>> >
>> > It’s not without good reasons : it’s kird of unaesy to do multilne
>> > definitions, they can’t be easily styled, the imbrication beetween
>> > dls and ul and on is tricky once you want to do something elaborated.
>> >
>> > Yet using dls could allow us to better annotate semantically our
>> > articles. Any idea on how to make their usage easier and to style
>> > them ? We can style tables, lists are not as easy to style.
>>
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Glossaries ?
>
Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to
'enforce' a format?
>>
>> andre
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>>
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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