Lines starting with ; are not recognized as wikitext and just saved, only afterwards revealing their wikitext meaning:
Reported: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/;caption
Version: unspecified
Severity: trivial
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T39938 Support for creating and editing definition-lists in VisualEditor | ||
| Resolved | Jdforrester-WMF | T71689 Entering ";" does not trip the wikitext warning that it won't work |
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Change 175909 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jforrester):
Warn users who write ';' or ':' on a new line that it won't work
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Change 175909 merged by jenkins-bot:
Warn users who write ';' or ':' on a new line that it won't work
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Verified in beta and test2 - a semi-colon will trigger a wikitext warning; a colon(:) - indicates a <blockquote> text.
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I don't think that's exactly correct: the ; semi-colon and the : regular
colon are supposed to create association lists (aka definition lists,
because they're used for glossaries a lot). I believe that a <blockquote>
is a different thing.
Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Indeed. This is intentional. Use of a ":" to "indent a paragraph" (as multiple people who are wikitext experts have complained) is a sign that they're doing it wrong. :-) This is a much better outcome for editors – doing what they "meant" to do – and for readers.
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The current behavior in production:
;(semi-colon) triggers a warning "Wikitext markup detected..."
: (colon) adds <blockquote></blockquote>