Forum:Editcount: prevent insertion of HTML paragraph tags like on Wikia

I installed the latest revision (MW1.15-r48711) of Extension:Editcount on a couple of wikis I run and found that the syntax



where Username is the username, produces the paragraph-enclosed output


 * NumberOfEdits

instead of simply


 * NumberOfEdits

as is the case with the same syntax on Wikia, which also uses this extension. How do I prevent those HTML paragraph tags from being created?

—Lowellian (reply) 23:19, May 21, 2010 (UTC)
 * This is a known bug with MediaWiki, see . --Pcj (T&bull;C) 05:21, May 22, 2010 (UTC)