On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:05:46 +0100, Pete/Pcb21
<pete_pcb21_wpmail(a)pcbartlett.com> wrote:
Angela wrote:
1) so you can use "what links here"
from the date pages to find
everything that happened on that date
But the day of year and year are linked separately, making this
effectively useless. I'd much prefer to link each day individually, but
this task may be too monumental to do (not so much in terms of writing
and using the appropriate script - but in terms of getting widespread
agreement)
I think the idea is that you can research a list of anniversaries /
"on this day" by investigating links in "what links here". I suppose
you could have a redirect for every single date in history (that's
730,000 to cover from the New Testament to the present; oh, and that's
assuming you only have one valid form for each date, of course...),
but for one thing you'd max out the what links here display for the
targets (assuming [[4 November 1982]] would redirect to [[4
November]]) without showing a single real page.
And what would you gain exactly? You'd still have to refine the list
into a manually edited page to make it in any way interesting or
useful, and the result would be... well, remarkably similar to what we
have now, I imagine.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]