Any better way to create MediaWiki numbered lists?

Question

When using MediaWiki\'s markup language, the only thing that I hate is creating numbered lists. The only way I know to create a list is to do something like this:

Answer 1

There are a couple of options, but you can start an ordered list from an arbitrary number like this:

#Item1

Something


#Item2

You can also use "#:" if you don't mind "Something" being indented a lot:

#Item1
#:
#: Something
#:
#Item2

There are quite a lot of options with lists, you can find more info on Wiki's Help Pages:List.

update

Newer version work more like regular html markup the old syntax will now give you a double indent and will not adjust the start offset, but the following works well, even with the source/syntaxhighlight tag.

Item1
Something



Item2
var a = 1;

In short everything within the ol tag will have the same indentation and will not be numbered if it is outside a li tag. The following will now work and it mean you don't have to offset groups manually.

Item1
Something
Item2
var a = 1;