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
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.
Is it just me, or are you always almost finished on features by the time someone thinks to suggest them?
I don't see what the big problem is. Sure having dates autoformatted without linking them would be nice, but really what's wrong with linking full dates?
Mgm
On 1/2/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
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.
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On 1/2/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
I don't see what the big problem is. Sure having dates autoformatted without linking them would be nice, but really what's wrong with linking full dates?
It's not per se a *big* problem, but there are some issues.
One is that on a Wiki without date articles, you get redlinks. E.g. commons.
Another is that it means that the date articles are referenced by far too many articles.
Another is simply too much of a 'sea of bue links' - unnecessary linkage (a cosmetic and aesthetic issue).
-Matt
On 02/01/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Are you planning any way of having this be selective? I'm wondering about the effect of "correcting" direct quotations, or the titles of works cited as references...