A kind of text block which is halfway between a WikiList and a WikiTable. It's handy where you have a list of things which have a key-value structure: people's phone numbers, various aspects of some thing, lists of definitions, questions and answers, lines in a conversation or play, etc. It's done like a little table, only with colons, and with no header line. For example: : DaveLangford : mailto:ansible@cix.co.uk : AdamRoberts : http://www.adamroberts.com/contact.htm : JohnClute : mailto:jclute@cix.co.uk Which is produced from the following WikiText: $ : DaveLangford : mailto:ansible@cix.co.uk : AdamRoberts : http://www.adamroberts.com/contact.htm : JohnClute : jclute@cix.co.uk - _Is it a good idea to allow spambots to harvest the adress of an author? Maybe it's possible to do so from his site, but I think it would be a good idea to have a broken address here instead of a valid one._ -- These addresses are all on the public web. Go to google, enter "Dave Langford" or "John Clute", take the first hit, and search for an email address. Having them here doesn't make them any more public - or can you see some reason the addresses wouldn't be harvested from the authors' pages? --- _Point taken. Soz_ ---- No problem. Alternatively, you might use it like this: : Name : Robby : Type of being : Robot : Most famous movie : ForbiddenPlanet : Opinion on oxygen : "I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust." Or like this: : Q : How does it work? : A : Like this. : Q : Gad! So it does! : A : Who are we waiting for again? : Q : *I ask the questions around here!* For the HTML__ically inclined, this is, at present, done with the much-neglected
element;
, in fact. The way most browsers render this looks pretty bad if the key is long - the value gets shoved onto a second line. Accordingly, TwicI might change to rendering these using HTML tables, with the headings down the first column. For example: $
NameRobby
Type of beingRobot
CategoryWiki