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Unable to assign starting value to numbered list
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Author: omehegan

Description:
According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List#Specifying_a_starting_value I should be able to define the starting value for a numbered list like this:

#<li value=10>Saint Petersburg
#Petrograd
#Leningrad

Instead of rendering like this, though:

  1. Saint Petersburg
  2. Petrograd
  3. Leningrad

In MediaWiki 1.15.1 it renders like this:

  1. Saint Petersburg
  2. Petrograd
  3. Leningrad

Version: 1.15.x
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz21631

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:51 PM
bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Parser.
bzimport set Reference to bz21631.
bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

This syntax is not supported, and just "appears" to work, but only when Html Tidy is enabled. I removed that example, remember that these help pages are not "official" and might be edited by anyone (this was added in http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:List&diff=1342633&oldid=1239421). A way to specify the start value is already asked in bug 4281.