I was unaware that the
:indent
markup actually used DL/DD tags. That's an awful idea. It should either
<blockquote> or <div style="margin-left: 1.5em">. Changing that
immediately
would have no adverse effects.
The definition list conversion should only happen when you begin with a
semi-colon:
; definiendum : definiens
As for the thread's main question, I agree that wikitext should parse more
intuitively - but this would break current pages. Currently, HTML is
actually allowed inside wikitext - we can't escape it.