erik_moeller@gmx.de (Erik Moeller) said:

Just because you're currently talking about the parser I thought I might bring up an issue which should be fixed in a next generation parser:

• foo bar

foo

Becomes

<UL><LI>foo bar </LI></UL> foo

It should become

<UL><LI>foo bar foo </LI></UL>

I generally agree that wiki markup should not span linebreaks, but here I think it should at least span single linebreaks. Otherwise it gets very hard to format bullets with long paragraphs...

I agree. I find the current behavior rather inexplicable, since in "normal" paragraphs, inserting a single linebreak and continuing the text simply continues the paragraph... but if I convert it to a list, I have to suddenly remove linebreaks. In particular, this makes "diffs" hard to follow.

Consistency is a good thing. Basically, a single linebreak should mean nothing UNLESS the beginning of the next line has a special marker (e.g., *, #).

If this change were done, it might affect some text... but probably not that much. A search could find such text and fix it.

One problem is that this would mean that you couldn't have an embedded list in a paragraph, followed by more text without switching to a new paragraph. I guess you could permit embedded HTML <ol>..<li>..</ol> if you wanted to support that. In general, it would be good to have a more formal definition of the Wikipedia Wikitext format somewhere.