I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with this.
One is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible to
add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases where
people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted list and
bold where semantically a dl would have been better.
An example o
2017-08-22 13:47 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 12:22 +0200, Thomas Douillard
wrote:
Definition lists are underused.
People usually prefers to format themselves to fit their preferences
than to use the "; :„ syntax, or custom templates (theorem, examples,
…)
It’s not without good reasons : it’s kird of unaesy to do multilne
definitions, they can’t be easily styled, the imbrication beetween
dls and ul and on is tricky once you want to do something elaborated.
Yet using dls could allow us to better annotate semantically our
articles. Any idea on how to make their usage easier and to style
them ? We can style tables, lists are not as easy to style.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Glossaries ?
Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to 'enforce' a format?
andre
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