This could be fairly simple. Just change {{fact}} to be just like {{prod}}, where you subst it and it comes out as dated prod (or in this case, factdate or dated fact or whatever) and the date. We could use the same Tawkerbot code as used in the prod conversion to convert fact, and we could just add it to the subst list normally after that. It would probably be best to do it by month though, rather than date, because of the sheer amount of them, and it would likely create yet another huge backlog like wikify and cleanup, though the current category is worse AND unorganized, so it would be better to have people actually work on it, instead of it just sitting there. The one problem that I can see is that if the article has several tags from different dates (even if they're relatively sparse, a big article could have this problem), the entire category section would be filled with "Category:Articles with unsourced statements from [Month] [Year]" tags, drowning out everything else.
On 10/15/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/15/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Is there any way we could have a date-stamped fact tag? Which would
put
such things into a category or other similar page?
Yes would need to be {{subst:fact}} though
No it wouldn't. You could have a template like {{factdate|date=somedate}} whcih puts the article in a "Category:Unsourced statements from {{{date}}}". If we want to be sure that this works we could have a template which you subst in that is replaced with {{factdate|date={{{subst:CURRENTDATE}}}}} (or whatever the name of the variable is).
This is certainly technically feasible without having to subst the entire template in (which would make it much harder to edit some articles).
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