(Please forget the precedinng message) 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. One other problem is that it’s hard to differentiate a multiline definition from multiple définitions An example of a template that could be a usecase, in math : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Th%C3%A9or%C3%A8me Yes, technical solution would help of course, a more visible UI trick to build glossaries would help. But I think a more fundamental thinking about current status of glossaries or other stuffs with a legend/definition would be a good thing to work with this largely unknown wikitext and HTML feature. «:» is known … to indent, and «;» is knows … to bolden. But it’s not understood as a way to build a list of answer to a post … 2017-08-22 15:09 GMT+02:00 Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard(a)gmail.com>om>: > 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 <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>rg>: > >> 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 ? >>> >> andre >> -- >> Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler >> http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitext-l mailing list >> Wikitext-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l >> > >

Le 22/08/2017 à 15:22, Thomas Douillard a écrit : Yeah, I had nightmares after realizing that colon (:) wasn't rendered with an matching semantic structure. :P