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