Editing Help:Wiki Editing Syntax Guide (section)

===Interrupted Lists===

With the wiki syntax you can only make a list without interruptions; the list items can't be interrupted by anything. For example,
#Point 1
 code
#Point 2


To make a list with interruptions between the list items you need to use HTML.

<nowiki><ol></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><li>Point 1</li></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><li>Point 2<br /></nowiki><br />
<nowiki>More about point 2</li></nowiki><br />
<nowiki><li>Point 3</li></nowiki><br />
<nowiki>#Sub-Point 1</nowiki><br />
<nowiki>#Sub-Point 2</nowiki><br />
<nowiki><li>Point 4</li></nowiki><br />
<nowiki>Point 4.5?</nowiki><br />
<nowiki><li>Point 5</li></nowiki><br />
<nowiki></ol></nowiki>

<ol>
<li>Point 1</li>
<li>Point 2<br />
More about point 2</li>
<li>Point 3</li>
#Sub-Point 1
#Sub-Point 2
<li>Point 4</li>
Point 4.5?
<li>Point 5</li>
</ol>

Everything between the ordered list tags <nowiki><ol></nowiki> and <nowiki></ol></nowiki> will act like one list and every list item <nowiki><li></nowiki> will have be numbered correctly. As you can see there's no problem starting a list with the wiki syntax inside the HTML list. You can make an unordered list with the <nowiki><ul></nowiki> and <nowiki></ul></nowiki> tags instead of <nowiki><ol></nowiki> and <nowiki></ol></nowiki>.