I’m aware of this syntax. There is issues with this.

One is that we can’t easyli apply a CSS on it. On tables, it’s possible to
add «|class=wikitable» is possible, not in dls. I encountered cases where
people did not like the display style and replaced by bulleted list and
bold where semantically a dl would have been better.

An example o
 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me

2017-08-22 13:47 GMT+02:00 Andre Klapper <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 12:22 +0200, Thomas Douillard wrote:
> > Definition lists are underused.
> >
> > People usually prefers to format themselves to fit their preferences
> > than to use the "; :„ syntax, or custom templates (theorem, examples,
> > …)
> >
> > It’s not without good reasons : it’s kird of unaesy to do multilne
> > definitions, they can’t be easily styled, the imbrication beetween
> > dls and ul and on is tricky once you want to do something elaborated.
> >
> > Yet using dls could allow us to better annotate semantically our
> > articles. Any idea on how to make their usage easier and to style
> > them ? We can style tables, lists are not as easy to style.
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Glossaries ?
> Or do you ask for some 'technical' nudging to 'enforce' a format?
>
> andre
> --
> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitext-l mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
>
_______________________________________________
Wikitext-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l

Reply via email to