Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5645428-20160426031255/@comment-856287-20160427205707

NoWayThisUsernameIsAlreadyOwnedBySomeone wrote: Interesting approach to solve this. But I'd rather call it a workaround than a fix :) I suppose a real "fix" would be to re-write MediaWiki's back-end wikitext parser to make it recognize what was intended (without breaking anything in the process). A bit beyond my abilities. :D

I don't know of any way to get the parser to see it as "a new line that starts with an asterisk" unless there's something on the first line (since any whitespace there, including a newline/carriage return, will be condensed to nothing at all and ignored). The only way is to have something there. It could be some text, rather than starting out with a bullet point. Wikipedia & MediaWiki's help pages recommend tags to prevent collapsing whitespace, so that works. You may be able to do something with quotes, but I'm not sure. ...or, you use raw HTML tags instead of wikitext: somethingsomething else

...or, if you're me, you just say "here's a quick fix" and don't bother explaining all of that :D