On 8/3/07, Paul grinberg wrote:
Unfortunately, I am new to this list, so I
don't know the history of this
discussion. Can you please point me at the previous discussion or maybe
summarize the key point here? As part of my experience using and maintaining
the wiki at my work, I see this as probably the weakest link in the wiki. I'd
like to understand the reasoning behind the decisions made thus far.
The basic concern is not to complicate wiki markup unnecessarily.
There are various WONTFIXed bugs about it at
bugzilla.wikimedia.org.
There's an easy way to allow starting values without adding new syntax
to the grammar: Allow wiki-items and html-items to be mixed.
So instead of
<ol start="5">
<li>A</li>
<li>B</li>
<li>C</li>
<li>D</li>
</ol>
you can use
<ol start="5">
# A
# B
# C
# D
</ol>
Mixing # and <li> would be undesirable, but not a big problem for the code.