How do you insert a "<" in a mediawiki?

Question

How do you insert a '<' to subscribe to mediawiki? It should be simple, it drives me crazy .... I tried \ l, it doesn't work

Answer 1

<

Must work.

Answer 2

All this works for me on installing MediaWiki 1.24.1:

* <
* <nowiki><</nowiki>
* &lt;

While

* <li>
* <nowiki><li></nowiki>
* &lt;li&gt;

gives