On 02/01/07, wikien-l-request@wikipedia.org wikien-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
Message: 4 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:03:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Matt R matt_crypto@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates per MoS? To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 22706.71300.qm@web25011.mail.ukl.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
We have two competing MOS provisions because square-bracketing dates achieves two unrelated effects: creating a link to the article on that date, and formatting it according to user preferences. It's really time we separated the syntax for this (assuming we can find a suitable solution and amenable developers). See:
I'm working on something that might achieve this, pending performance issues and testing; the whole sob saga is being documented on my otherwise hideously-empty blog (http://blog.anubite.co.uk) -- I'm hoping to have it all done to fully-testable standards by the end of the week.
Rob Church