Starting a counter in mediawiki without extension

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

1. Three
   Four
   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>