That's Pearle, which would be an alternate way of doing things, where people write {{fact}} and it's changed by a bot to {{fact-date|Month Year}}, putting it in a datestamped category. It's easier for the typist than {{subst:fact}}, but even if they wrote {{fact}}, a substing bot is probably less complicated than Pearle, though it doesn't really make a difference. (Also, I promise you that I will not be helping to implement any of these changes; last time I did something like this I was blocked twice).
On 10/15/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
geni wrote:
On 10/15/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Is there any way we could have a date-stamped fact tag?
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Would need to be done by bot...
If I remember correctly, the last time I put a bare {cleanup} tag on an article (being too lazy to look up the preferred date-stamped version), a bot came along less than a day later and replaced the tag with the properly date-stamped version. So clearly we could use the same sort of bot here, if we wanted to. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l