https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12262

Nemo_bis <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |

--- Comment #19 from Nemo_bis <[email protected]> 2012-03-11 10:37:10 UTC 
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(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > Are you saying it's a change considering only en.wiki's wishes? 
> 
> Since enwiki is by far the largest project, yes. Its consideration is regarded
> to be representative.

No it's not.

> > Nested lists worked before as well, because each # and * gave the same
> > indentation; : is not used to nest lists, even on en.wiki, based on what I 
> > see
> > in [[Help:List]] (where it's only an extreme random example) and
> > [[Category:Wikipedia Manual of Style (lists)]]. 
> 
> No they didn't, that's the point. And ":" is primarely used on talk pages,
> which is where unmatching indentations with * and # were the biggest
> complaints. Hence why there are now matched.

You're only considering en.wiki usage; : is used in many places on other
projects.
Nested lists worked perfectly, unless one want things like
#
##
#*
#**
#*#
to "work" and be aligned, which is obviously impossible.

> > Robin has already said why, and I've reopened the bug based on complaints on
> > Italian wikis.
> 
> Reclosing again... This bug has been resolved. Continuing to reopen this one 
> is
> not the proper procedure. Please open a *NEW* bug (add the bug number here for
> reference), and provide links to those complaints, so we can assess their
> merit.

This bug has not been fixed properly so reopening it is the usual process for
what I see. I'm not a CSS guru so I don't know how to avoid the problem that
«it seems as if the indented text is part of the bullet text».
I also want to asses the merit of your complaints, given that you're only
providing confused anecdotal references to supposed usages of nested lists
(please provide guidelines instead, or statistics on usage) and links to
discussions with very few participants and not even unanimity. As regards
discussions, which seems to be your only point, the problem is now bigger than
before because comments indented with : could now look written by the same user
as comments indented with * above them, which is a severe regression making
discussions a mess.

But if you want links like yours, here are some complaints
https://it.wikiquote.org/?oldid=466240#Indentazione , here a guideline which
requires the old system [[q:it:Wikiquote:Trascrizione]], here one of the
hundreds of pages broken by the change [[:q:it:Tito Livio]],
[[q:it:MediaWiki:Common.css]] had to be changed. Usage on all Wikiquotes and
Wiktionaries, which are the main users of lists, must be considered.

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