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 >
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