https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4740

--- Comment #28 from Michael Zajac <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Gabriel Wicke from comment #26)
> 1) allows for more sophisticated formatting (comment 1)

The main reason I requested this is the ability for an editor to create
multiple row groups by adding multiple tbody elements in a table. This would
allow grouping data in tables, making these groups accessible to assistive
devices like screen readers, allow visual formatting of the groups with CSS
(other than redundant inline CSS), and allowing behaviours like collapsing
groups.

The solution in comment 1 simply automates adding a whole-table tbody element,
and does not satisfy the requirement (the HTML DOM implicitly includes a
full-table tbody anyway, so this solution is redundant.)

Some use-case examples that would benefit from this:

* Thousands of list articles that break up lists into separate tables, often
set off with article sections. These would benefit by automatically having
columns visually aligned, and in accessibility. Examples: 

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jim_Rockford's_answering_machine_gags
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_provincial_and_territorial_symbols
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_field_guns

* Similarly, data tables and infoboxes that set off groups using th elements,
with inline CSS for visual formatting, with rows and cells containing only hr
elements, or multiple methods:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_alphabet#Unicode
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Ukrainian#Tables_of_romanization_systems
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_weapon

* Navboxes that use nested tables to create groups:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WWIISovietAFVs

* Wiktionaries have thousands of simple and complex inflection tables that need
grouping:

  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/слушать#Conjugation
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/анулирам#Conjugation

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