Starting a counter in mediawiki without extension

Revision as of 10:14, 25 January 2021

Say you want to count like this in mediawiki (not starting at 1):

The internet tells you it's not possible natively and that you need an extension. Here's an ugly hack to do it anyway! (keeping the # rather than going full HTML).

<div style="color:white;">
# <ol start=3><div style="color:black; position:relative; left:-50px;">
# Three
# Four
# Five</div></ol></div>

I use that often in multicol environment:


{{multicol}}
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frJ10fmNRQo The Platonic Universe]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dhEbzZn6-4 Arithmetic and Algebra]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imd_npki9y8 Logic and Sets]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMvFum0tjw Complex Numbers]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh5Vnlzi0BI Vectors]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6k8kofOvO4 Functions]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5IQSEV-JCY Infinities]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqW-yUim1eQ Infinitesimals]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxj8dknFzs Composite and Inverses]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qux70NDSZY Taylor Expansions]
{{multicol-break}}
<div style="color:white;">
# <ol start=11><div style="color:black; position:relative; left:-50px;"><div>
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=980xGs1dL3w Bra and Kets]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW-OvvqsTjY Integrals]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPyOe-hutXo Basis]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tc8VYUoYD4 Linear Functions]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDQTgJUf-8 Inverses and Determinants]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XsXH7HtQI Eigensystems]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYfqXxAPVnk Fourier Series]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN4g3l2oo4Q Differential Equations]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_UbQdddIg Wronskians]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKtNA_P_-ho Jacobians]
# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7k17Ct5FeM The Equations of Physics]
{{multicol-end}}

which gives me a nicely-ordered, neatly-displayed list of my Mathematics's Wolverhampton lectures of Physics:

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 # [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh_UbQdddIg Wronskians]
 # [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKtNA_P_-ho Jacobians]
-# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7k17Ct5FeM The Equations of Physics]</div></ol></div>
+# [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7k17Ct5FeM The Equations of Physics]</div></ol>
+</div>
 {{multicol-end}}
 {{wl-publish: 2021-01-25 10:10:13 +0000 | Fabrice }}