Last modified: 2012-12-08 22:54:29 UTC
You define a definitionlist like this: ;The Events at 17:42 UTC Mediawiki interprets this as an Definitionlist with "The Events at 17" as the Definition (<dt>) and "42 UTC" as the first Definitionlistentry (<dd>) and so this construct is rendered like this: The Events at 17 (<-- Bold) 42 UTC So the colon in 17:42 should not be interpreted as a definitionlistentry. A colon should only be interpreted as a definitionlistentry when it is at the beginning of a new line.
I see the issue, but I think it was made this way on purpose. I got the following from comments in Parser.php: > # The one nasty exception: definition lists work like this: > # ; title : definition text > # So we check for : in the remainder text to split up the > # title and definition, without b0rking links. While standard practice is to separate them by lines (meaning :'s should be usable on a title line ';'), I'm unsure as to what this might break, changing the behavior.
