Last modified: 2011-04-30 01:20:36 UTC
According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:List#Specifying_a_starting_value I should be able to define the starting value for a numbered list like this: #<li value=10>Saint Petersburg #Petrograd #Leningrad Instead of rendering like this, though: 10. Saint Petersburg 11. Petrograd 12. Leningrad In MediaWiki 1.15.1 it renders like this: 1. 10. Saint Petersburg 11. Petrograd 12. Leningrad
This syntax is not supported, and just "appears" to work, but only when Html Tidy is enabled. I removed that example, remember that these help pages are not "official" and might be edited by anyone (this was added in http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:List&diff=1342633&oldid=1239421). A way to specify the start value is already asked in bug 4281.