Author: Tom_Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>

Description:
I'm currently using the brilliant extension mw-slidy to display wiki content using Slidy on a MW is provided by a contractor

• version=1.16.0--please let me know if that's too downlevel
• also unfortunately behind a firewall

for my group @ US EPA. This allows us to automagically display our MediaWiki content (and we use MW extensively) as "real slides" for presentation: IMHO that's a major productivity gain, and should be more widely adopted. mw-slidy basically works as advertised (readme, with one minor exception), which is great. Notably mw-slidy delivers "Incremental display of slide contents" as described here, but it has an authoring problem which it seems to inherit from the wikitext parser (unless I'm missing something). I would like to be able to write

<ol class="incremental">
# discuss ''problems''
# target ''etiologies''
# float generic ''solutions''
# pitch specific ''implementations''
# ''discuss'' ...
</ol>

This will display, but not incrementally; rather, the entire list displays at once. In order to display list items one-at-a-time in the slidy show, I must instead write HTML, i.e.,

<ol class="incremental"> 
  <li>discuss <em>problems</em></li>
  <li>target <em>etiologies</em></li>
  <li>float generic <em>solutions</em></li>
  <li>pitch specific <em>implementations</em></li>
  <li><em>discuss</em> ...</li>
</ol>

which obviously loses one of the ease-of-authoring advantages of wikitext. It appears this is due to MW not respecting (or passing along) attribute=class for HTML elements={ol, ul} with inner wikitext: am I missing something?

Note further that Slidy/mw-slidy supports outlining via the same mechanism.