On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Mark Nilrad marknilrad@yahoo.com wrote:
The thing about the template is that after the date it's useless; it can just be plain text. So, someone will come and remove it, which is just the same as having to update the date manually.
I suggested above that because these template tags can be categorized, and are distinct from other text, and can contain also a simple way of indicating (visibly or in code) their switched position, that they would be easily visible to a bot, which could then check and replace switched tags with the past tense text.
We could also I suppose automate other kinds of content in other simple ways, but I can't think of anything that would be computationally feasible. I suppose we already do present auto-calculated personal age based on their birth date, or their birth and death date. Any other [[Wikipedia:Content automation]] templates/tags/processes?
-SV