On 5/21/07, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/21/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
I couldn't do a wiki date to save my life, so I simply use my edit
summaries
to request that someone format the date for me--I did try to look dates
up
in MoS once, even got some great help, but decided it was too much work, especially when total strangers who watch recent changes are willing to
jump
in and format my dates.
As all the folks doing my copyediting seem to have a handle on style
issues,
as nobody ever insults my style *after* my posse has made it beautiful.
If you're curious, dates are actually dead easy, you can pretty much enter them in any format you want as long as you link them. The date format will then be configured by MediaWiki and the user preferences. Example:
[[December 24]] [[2006]] [[24 December]], [[2006]] [[2006]], [[December 24]]
These will all render the same way, depending on your preferences. Of all the strange MediaWiki formatting things, this one is actually pretty simple :)
--Oskar
The problem I have with dates is entering them in my references. I seldom use a date in an article's text, other than a year, because I do mostly natural history articles, and some few biographies with other editors who do the detail work (such as dates). But I would like to know once and for all how to enter a date in a reference so it shows up correctly, since you're offering--this is inside the tag. If it requires more than one comment, though, skip it.
KP