I think numbering table rows is a natural need everywhere through the life.
Not the number of the rows, the number of each row alone, e.g. a ranking.
Let's have a look at this:
https://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magyarorsz%C3%A1g_legnagyobb_telep%C3%BCl%C3%A9sei_k%C3%B6zigazgat%C3%A1si_ter%C3%BClet_szerint&curid=115741&diff=15476065&oldid=15256125
Do we really need to do this manually, and if a new row is inserted into
the middle, manually renumber the whole table from that point again? OK, I
can do some dirty workarounds in Excel (where generating numbers is a mouse
motion only) if I need, and I definitely would do in such cases for 114
rows, but I am more educated in Excel than the average of editors. Wouldn't
it be nice to have a natural wikiconform way, either a {{#}}-like magic
symbol to the first cell of each row, or perhaps a new class that generates
a first column by itself?

2015-01-01 13:49 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:

> Hoi,
> The number is to represent what ?? Or do you only want to know the number
> of records presented ?
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> On 1 January 2015 at 13:40, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 2015-01-01 13:31 GMT+01:00 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > That would be useful when the table is static. When numbers are not
> > static
> > > it is only useful for one time usage. Typically it should be possible
> to
> > > add numbers for one time usage.
> > >
> >
> > I am afraid I don't understand you. Why is it such a big deal to change
> > some magic word or symbol to a dynamic row number when rendering the
> table?
> > My thought is that MW has to translate wikitables to HTML, thus it has to
> > generate <tr> tags that are countable. Well, rowspan may cause some
> > headache.
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