MetaWiki mentions the following [1]:

If you have a template/parser function that produces * and you WANT it to be parsed as wikitext — but without adding a newline, you can write <li>; a <ul> element will be added by the software.

I tried to do that, but the <ul> tag is not added (at least on MW-1.22.12). This template:

<includeonly><li>test</li></includeonly>

produces only '<li>test</li>' upon transclusion.

What is the intended behaviour here? Have I misunderstood the MetaWiki section? Thanks for your replies,

-- jlk

[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Newlines_and_spaces#Automatic_newline