I don't have any opinion about this one at the moment. Keep as an addition? -- MarioLenz
I think that this particular element is not as useful as it seems, and in fact it opens a Pandora's box. The same meaning can be communicated using a table or headings. In fact, in my experience, people often use definition lists when they should have just divided the page into sections with headings, or even create separate pages for the terms: remember, wikis are in large part about defining terms. So, definition list seems to be in large part just a matter of aesthetics or user's desire to condense the information on small space. I blame Powerpoint ;) -- RadomirDopieralski 2009-04-16 18:41:44
Now that you mention it: I can't remember anyone using definition lists correctly in our old MediaWiki based internal wiki. (I convinced my colleagues to switch to MoinMoin in the meantime, at least partly because of creole which I made the standard markup.) So why not remove them completely? I'm no friend of the additions anyway: They are somewhow "official" creole without beeing really interoperable :-/ -- MarioLenz 2009-04-17 07:33:23
I thought Creole should be portable? Maybe its not needed in your wiki, but in the gaming wikis I frequently visit it is used far too less. Many pages consist of huge blocks of this pattern: <bold text><semicolon:><space><one sentence>, maybe even with a bullet in front of it. *shiver* If you want to explain e.g. different ways to do something, there is no way around them. – flying sheep ~~