Hello all,
I was wondering if it were possible to have a user account setting where I set the date to either mm-dd-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, and the dates within articles show up that way across the wiki. Some prefer one way, others prefer the other way.
Thanks,
James
James R. Johnson wrote:
I was wondering if it were possible to have a user accountsetting where I set the date to either mm-dd-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, and the dates within articles show up that way across the wiki. Some prefer one way, others prefer the other way.
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
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James R. Johnson wrote:
I was wondering if it were possible to have a user accountsetting where I set the date to either mm-dd-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, and the dates within articles show up that way across the wiki. Some prefer one way, others prefer the other way.
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
Always bearing in mind that this will only work for *linked* dates.
See here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers%...
HTH HAND
I was wondering more along the lines of a tag, like the geo, so that we can format the date within the article, such as [[date:10-24-2005;us;md]] or [[date:24-10-2005;iso;dm]] to tell the computer to display in the first case the date October 24th, 2005 in the US format, with only the month and day, thus "October 24" and in the second case in the ISO format, with only the day and month, so "24 October" with the month names coming from the System messages.
James
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Phil Boswell Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:09 PM To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Date Formats
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James R. Johnson wrote:
I was wondering if it were possible to have a user accountsetting where I set the date to either mm-dd-yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy, and the dates within articles show up that way across the wiki. Some prefer one way, others prefer the other way.
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
Always bearing in mind that this will only work for *linked* dates.
See here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_%28dates_and_numbers% 29#Dates
HTH HAND
James R. Johnson wrote:
I was wondering more along the lines of a tag, like the geo, so that we can format the date within the article, such as [[date:10-24-2005;us;md]] or [[date:24-10-2005;iso;dm]] to tell the computer to display in the first case the date October 24th, 2005 in the US format, with only the month and day, thus "October 24" and in the second case in the ISO format, with only the day and month, so "24 October" with the month names coming from the System messages.
ISO format is 2005-10-24.i.e. yyyy-mm-dd
Ec
On 30/04/05, James R. Johnson modean52@comcast.net wrote:
I was wondering more along the lines of a tag, like the geo, so that we can format the date within the article, such as [[date:10-24-2005;us;md]] or [[date:24-10-2005;iso;dm]] to tell the computer to display in the first case the date October 24th, 2005 in the US format, with only the month and day, thus "October 24" and in the second case in the ISO format, with only the day and month, so "24 October" with the month names coming from the System messages.
I don't understand - why would you want to force a particular format in this way, and if you did, what would be wrong with just writing it out yourself? Surely the aim is to have dates, however entered, appear uniformly in the format chosen by the user *reading* the page. This is exactly what Tim's DateFormatter does, but rather than having to specifically tag it as a date, you just have to make the parts of the date into links. (Of course, this has disadvantages - such as a lot of fairly irrelevant links into pages to do with dates - but it makes it very easy to use)
On 4/25/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
...but only if you're on the English Wikipedia. http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences has no such option. Would it be feasible to add this feature to other wikis?
Angela.
On 25/04/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/25/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
...but only if you're on the English Wikipedia. http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences has no such option. Would it be feasible to add this feature to other wikis?
This is, I believe, coded and coming soon - probably in 1.5, due to go "beta" at the beginning of next month. See, for instance: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-March/038490.html
Rowan Collins wrote:
On 25/04/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/25/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Go to your preferences, click the "Date format" tab, and select your preferred format.
...but only if you're on the English Wikipedia. http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences has no such option. Would it be feasible to add this feature to other wikis?
This is, I believe, coded and coming soon - probably in 1.5, due to go "beta" at the beginning of next month. See, for instance: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-March/038490.html
Avar's feature only applies to dates generated by MediaWiki, such as in history or recent changes. DateFormatter is too leet for him ;) Some of my best work :)
-- Tim Starling
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