Starting a counter in mediawiki without extension

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It's ugly and could break your document! Use with care under desperate circumstances!
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It's ugly and could break your document! Use with care under desperate circumstances! Here's an example with the <tt>multicol</tt> [[template]]:
  
 
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# [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>
 
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which gives me a nicely-ordered, neatly-displayed list of my [[Mathematics]]'s [[The_Wolverhampton_Lectures_of_Physics/Mathematics|Wolverhampton lectures of Physics]].
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Revision as of 10:44, 25 January 2021

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

    1. Three
    2. Four
    3. Five

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>

It's ugly and could break your document! Use with care under desperate circumstances! Here's an example with the multicol template:

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