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: No problem. Is '''[[Microtonal instruments]]''' a good starting point now? Admittedly, the source code (it seems that you - like me - don't use the visual editor) looks a bit dense when it comes to lists, especially when they have nested or long items. But from my POV it's now valid wiki syntax. The extensive inline HTML and sometimes overly complicated links date back to the import from wikispaces, a wiki with very different markup. We solve these problems bit by bit when we find the time and energy to do so or when it is urgently needed. Unfortunately I haven't had time to convert [[User:Xenwolf/Regex snippets|my regex snippets]] into a script yet. They solve most of the problems, but not the one with the HTML lists, because they are a number too big for regular expressions. --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 20:24, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

:: Totally agree. That's why I want eventually wikify "Instruments". This page is very important for me and for many, but messed up HTML formatting, which renders fixing separate points a waste of time. Agree? This is not a big work, I can do it but later. The only small thing I'm worry about is the possibility of some clash, I you rename something while I'm working at a page. In worst case, it won't be too bad, because I'll have a local copy and save all steps in a separate revision control, but small bit of information could be lost. I wouldn't worry if not noticed some related problem. Let's say, I'm adding a post to some "Talk" page, and someone does the same on the same page, and I get a notification. Several times, I lost my edit. (Any advice, anyway?) — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]]

: As for the topics (and watchlist which I forgot): on discussion (or talk) pages, there is a ''New topic'' tab between ''Edit'' and ''History''. Using this function makes it much easier to keep track of questions, problems etc. The MediaWiki discussion pages cannot replace an full-fledged forum or the comment function of a real issue tracker. The '''watchlist''' is really a page ([[Special:Watchlist]]) that shows unseen changes in bold. (It ''is'' currently kind of '''broken: a lot of functional code icons''' are not showing up. For example, external link decorations, image description links, collapse-expand indicators in recent changes and watchlist, sort direction indicators in some tables, ... hopefully all this will be fixed next week, [[User:Mike Battaglia]] and [[User:Tyler Henthorn]], the maintainers, are informed) --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 20:24, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

:: Thank you, let me take a look. Will you notify me if and when you have the fix? — [[User:SAKryukov|SA]] 20:35, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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 : No problem. Is '''[[Microtonal instruments]]''' a good starting point now? Admittedly, the source code (it seems that you - like me - don't use the visual editor) looks a bit dense when it comes to lists, especially when they have nested or long items. But from my POV it's now valid wiki syntax. The extensive inline HTML and sometimes overly complicated links date back to the import from wikispaces, a wiki with very different markup. We solve these problems bit by bit when we find the time and energy to do so or when it is urgently needed. Unfortunately I haven't had time to convert [[User:Xenwolf/Regex snippets|my regex snippets]] into a script yet. They solve most of the problems, but not the one with the HTML lists, because they are a number too big for regular expressions. --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 20:24, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
+:: Totally agree. That's why I want eventually wikify "Instruments". This page is very important for me and for many, but messed up HTML formatting, which renders fixing separate points a waste of time. Agree? This is not a big work, I can do it but later. The only small thing I'm worry about is the possibility of some clash, I you rename something while I'm working at a page. In worst case, it won't be too bad, because I'll have a local copy and save all steps in a separate revision control, but small bit of information could be lost. I wouldn't worry if not noticed some related problem. Let's say, I'm adding a post to some "Talk" page, and someone does the same on the same page, and I get a notification. Several times, I lost my edit. (Any advice, anyway?) &mdash;&nbsp;[[User:SAKryukov|SA]]
 : As for the topics (and watchlist which I forgot): on discussion (or talk) pages, there is a ''New topic'' tab between ''Edit'' and ''History''. Using this function makes it much easier to keep track of questions, problems etc. The MediaWiki discussion pages cannot replace an full-fledged forum or the comment function of a real issue tracker. The '''watchlist''' is really a page ([[Special:Watchlist]]) that shows unseen changes in bold. (It ''is'' currently kind of '''broken: a lot of functional code icons''' are not showing up. For example, external link decorations, image description links, collapse-expand indicators in recent changes and watchlist, sort direction indicators in some tables, ... hopefully all this will be fixed next week, [[User:Mike Battaglia]] and [[User:Tyler Henthorn]], the maintainers, are informed) --[[User:Xenwolf|Xenwolf]] ([[User talk:Xenwolf|talk]]) 20:24, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
+:: Thank you, let me take a look. Will you notify me if and when you have the fix? &mdash;&nbsp;[[User:SAKryukov|SA]] 20:35, 27 November 2020 (UTC)