How do you paste linefeeds into mediawiki?

Question

In a text editor (notepad) I create text like this

=Heading=
* item1
* item2
* item3

Then I try to copy and paste that into mediawiki and it turns it into

=Heading= * item1 * item2 * item3

How do I get mediawiki to STOP removing the end of lines in pre-formatted text?

Answer 1

@gman's answer no longer works (using WikiEditor version 0.3.1).

If you are just a wiki editor you actually need to uncheck

     Enable navigable table of contents 

under

     My Preferences->Labs features

If you are the host of the wiki, you should add this line to your LocalSettings.php file:

$wgDefaultUserOptions['usenavigabletoc'] = 0;

This disables the navigation column on the right side of the wiki editor for all users, which seems to be the cause of the line breaks not working properly.

Answer 2

The issue is you need to turn off Show edit toolbar (requires JavaScript) under My Preferences->Editing

With that on copy and paste has issues with linefeeds. With it off the issues go away.