Any better way to create MediaWiki numbered lists?

Question

When using MediaWiki\'s markup language, the only thing that I hate is creating numbered lists. The only way I know to create a list is to do something like this:

Answer 1

From the Wiki Help Page I was able to get the numbering in a list to stay consitant using <p> and <pre>:

# Item 1
# Item 2 <p><pre>Item 2 Pre Stuff</pre></p>
# Item 3

Would generate

1. Item 1
2. Item 2
   [ Item 2 Pre Stuff ]
3. Item 3

Answer 2

"#：" will not work with other tags like

<source lang=javascript>
//...
</source>

Answer 3

You can do:

# one
# two<br />spanning more lines<br />doesn't break numbering
# three
## three point one
## three point two

Regular old <br> works as well but probably pisses off someone.

You can put additional HTML formatting in as well to do <pre> formatting and the like without breaking the numbering as well. This also works other list formats.

From: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting

Answer 4

Like this:

#Item1
#:Somestuff
#Item2

Answer 5

There are a couple of options, but you can start an ordered list from an arbitrary number like this:

#Item1

Something

<ol start="2">
#Item2
</ol>

You can also use "#:" if you don't mind "Something" being indented a lot:

#Item1
#:
#: Something
#:
#Item2

There are quite a lot of options with lists, you can find more info on Wiki's Help Pages:List.

update

Newer version work more like regular html markup the old syntax will now give you a double indent and will not adjust the start offset, but the following works well, even with the source/syntaxhighlight tag.

<ol>
<li>Item1</li>
Something
</ol>

<ol start="2">
<li>Item2</li>
<source lang=javascript>
var a = 1;
</source>
</ol>

In short everything within the ol tag will have the same indentation and will not be numbered if it is outside a li tag. The following will now work and it mean you don't have to offset groups manually.

<ol>
<li>Item1</li>
Something
<li>Item2</li>
<source lang=javascript>
var a = 1;
</source>
</ol>

Answer 6

And for cases where you want to have some block text within your numbered wiki list try this

# one
#:<pre>
#:some stuff
#:some more stuff</pre>
# two

Which produces: