Author: mpt

Description:
MediaWiki interprets ''' as <strong>. But most pages
created with MediaWiki are for Wikimedia projects, which
aren't like most other Web sites; most of our uses of bold
are for defining instances <dfn>. Very, very few are for
strong emphasis. Since Wikimedia project contributors are
unlikely to care about the distinction between <dfn>/
<strong>/<b class="vector">, articles would sound more
sensible if ''' was interpreted as the neutral <b>.

(Possibly new syntax for defining instances, strong
emphasis and vector spaces could be created later for those
thoughtful enough to use it. To increase the number of
people using <dfn> correctly, the default style sheet could
style <h1>-<h6> and <dfn> with the same non-black color.)

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7921