https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59849

--- Comment #2 from WhatamIdoing <[email protected]> ---
The mess created here is definitely a problem.

However, what's being used there as "indentation" isn't indentation, strictly
speaking; that text has been marked as the second half of a term-definition
pair in a definition list, which is not semantically meaningful.  

I don't know whether VisualEditor is expected to support the presence of only
half of a paired list:  maybe, because it's (mis)used a lot, but maybe not,
because it shouldn't be used that way?  (That decision is someone else's
problem.)  

However, what's represented there like this:

:where,
: ''D'' = 1/''C'' is elastance
: ''C'' is capacitance
: ''S'' is stiffness


probably ought to be (for proper semantic meaning) a standard
(non-definition/non-association) list like this:

where,
* ''D'' = 1/''C'' is elastance
* ''C'' is capacitance
* ''S'' is stiffness

(or in a similar format, but without bullet points, which is possible but not
as trivial to create in wikitext).

It would be nice if MediaWiki actually supported plain old indentation, similar
to pressing the tab key on a typewriter, perhaps along the lines of the request
in bug 4521 (from 2006), but so far that request has not been granted.

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