From: "Sumurai8 (DD)" sumurai8@gmail.com

You can try to use

:*

instead of:

**

Difference is that the system won't try to make a <ul> in a <ul>, but uses a

<blockquote> and a <ul>. Technical, things are screwed up, but on your page things should look fine.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I was unable to make that work in the Sandbox. http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/Sandbox

I tried putting the ":" in various places, but the list formatting still fell to pieces after the line with <tasks>...</tasks> in it.

Any other ideas? I sure would like to be able to use this.

(www.EcoReality.org is a closed system -- primarily to avoid vandalism -- but I've temporarily added the user/pass "Wiki Guru/guru" if someone wants to help me figure out this stuff. Please be nice in there. :-)

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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 16:52:45 -0700 From: Jan Steinman Jan@Bytesmiths.com Subject: [Mediawiki-l] TasksExtension & Parser interaction breaks lists To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: C296BACC-C5BB-4FE0-88FE-86EC9AD5B9EE@Bytesmiths.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes

We've been using the great Tasks Extension to put lite (extremely lite) project management in our wiki.

Unfortunately, where we '''really''' want to use <tasks> is within lists, which is how we format meeting minutes, which is where action items are assigned, formatted individually as <tasks>...</tasks>.

Tasks are run through the parser, which apparently is putting extra line breaks in, which then messes up the list formatting. You can see a good example here: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Minutes:20090503

If you scroll down to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th bold ACTION text, you can see that they are embedded in a level-2 bullet list, but that they are causing the list to be re-set with an extra line feed.

I know it's the parser that's doing this, as I can edit extensions/ Tasks.php and replace "$parserOutput->getText()" with "$summary", which is what is being sent through the parser. In such a case, the $summary is not parsed, and the bullet list looks like it is supposed to.

I have a copy of Tasks.php (modified to do agreements, rather than tasks) that you can see behaving in this non-parsed manner, in our Sandbox: http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Sandbox

I've looked at ParserOptions, hoping to find something like $mDontAddExtraLinefeeds but to no avail. :-)

If I replace parse($summary...) with the private method replaceInternalLinks($summary), it looks like it is supposed to, except of course that wikitext formatting and internal links are lost. (And I don't really want to be sending private methods nor hacking around in Parser.)

Any thoughts on what's going on, and how best to fix it?

Thanks for whatever advice you can offer!

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