Hi Aditya,

Yes it is a strange behaviour and it appears only when using mkiv and reversed itemize, even with 
	\setuppagenumber[start=12]
instead of 
	\setupuserpagenumber[start=12]
Also the pagenumber remains unchanged with either of these commands, which means that it's a bug.

I tested your example with Context version 2011.11.29, mkiv and there everything is correct.

Best regards: OK

On 13 sept. 2012, at 02:34, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For some reason, the numbering in itemize is affected by the value of userpage!
> 
> \setupuserpagenumber[start=12]
> \starttext
> \startitemize[n,reverse]
>  \item One
>  \item Two
> \stopitemize
> \stoptext
> 
> With ConTeXt  2012.09.11 20:36 I get
> 
> 13. One
> 12. Two
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Aditya