Any better way to create MediaWiki numbered lists?

Gil Milow picture Gil Milow · Sep 16, 2008 · Viewed 19.8k times · Source

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:

#Item1
#Item2

However, if I want to add spaces or some other text between those lines, the numbering gets lost. For example, the following will create text that has two number one items:

#Item1
Somestuff
#Item2

Is there any way around this, or should I just use bullet points instead? I noticed just now that the stackoverflow system does not allow numbering like this, you have to do it all manually.

Answer

finnw picture finnw · Sep 16, 2008

Like this:

#Item1
#:Somestuff
#Item2