On 8/3/07, Paul grinberg <gri6507(a)yahoo.com> 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.
On 8/4/07, Jim Hu <jimhu(a)tamu.edu> wrote:
I think this could be done by manipulating the order
in which
numbered lists are handled relative to template expansion. In which
case, you'd use
# first item
#:{{:arbitrarily long extra stuff}}
# second item
This may be a bad idea, since it would change current behavior. i.e.
if I transclude a page that is a numbered list, it continues the
surrounding list and renumbers items below it. But I'm wondering if
that is the desired/expected behavior, and if people actually use it.
Templates are always substituted before any other wikimarkup parsing
occurs. Changing that would break everything.