On 10 February 2010 13:21, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
I think this is a brilliant idea and would deal with the problem marvellously. And it should be reasonably easy to implement in an incremental manner without disruption.
cc to commons-l - is there anything about this that'd be hard? Apart from going through a zillion images. The key point is it wouldn't disrupt anything existing.
- d.
On 10 February 2010 13:38, Eusebius wikipedia@eusebius.fr wrote:
Yeah, I omitted that because it wasn't in the original example :-)
{{copyright |date=whenever |author=NAME |died=whenever ... }}
- there's an awful lot of cases we could use, but I suppose the best approach would be to construct it for only one jurisdiction and build outwards from there.
The obvious source for the workflows here is something like the public domain calculator projects -
http://wiki.okfn.org/PublicDomainCalculators
I don't know how practical this is to run in template-code, though.
On 12 February 2010 18:09, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
You can bet someone (a geek and probably insane) will build a template to run inside the template that does this job in less than the 20 sec before MediaWiki kills the calculation. Then the result will be in cache.
- d.