--wrap=preserve breaks MediaWiki lists

[rohieb]

I want to preserve line breaks wherever possible in the output file, so I'm using pandoc --wrap=preserve. This works as intended so far with MediaWiki as output format, until I try to use lazy line continuation for my list items in my Markdown input. The problem here is that those line breaks inside the list items get transferred 1:1 to the MediaWiki output, but unfortunately, MediaWiki interprets line breaks in list items as a new paragraph. (Line breaks inside paragraphs are okay.)

For illustration, consider this example, wrapped neatly to 40 characters:

* This is a list item.
* This is a list item in Markdown. It is
  continued in the next line.
    * It has a sub-item.
* This is the next list item.

A paragraph can span multiple lines
without being broken into pieces.

After $ pandoc --wrap=preserve -t mediawiki /tmp/linebreaks.markdown:

* This is a list item.
* This is a list item in Markdown. It is
continued in the next line.
** It has a sub-item.
* This is the next list item.

A paragraph can span multiple lines
without being broken into pieces.

The pandoc output is rendered by MediaWiki like this, the list is broken in between:

I would expect that the MediaWiki writer can detect certain cases where the syntax of the output format does not allow line breaking, and suppress line breaks in these cases.

[rohieb]

Oh, that was quick! Thanks!