On 8/3/07, Paul grinberg gri6507@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@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.