If a B/C break is needed anyway, wouldn't this be a good chance to kill that weird special behavior and just use {{#time:..format...}} for the current date and {{#time:...format|{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}}} for the last revision's date like on all normal pages? Undiscoverable easter eggs like this do not make wiki administration any easier.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

If your wiki has modified the "Citethispage-content" message, it may
need some small modifications to continue working properly.

Background: The CiteThisPage special page shows different citations for
wiki articles. It mentions two different times: the first being the time
the specific revision of the article was edited, and the second being
the current time.

Special:CiteThisPage modified the parser so that any of the {{CURRENT*}}
time magic words would use the revision timestamp, and anything wrapped
inside of a special <citation>...</citation> tag would use the current
timestamp. However there was a bug in this implementation where the
{{#time:...}} parserfunction would always use the current timestamp,
even if it was outside the <citation> tags.

That bug has now been fixed[1], and will be deployed to all wikis
starting on October 4th. To retain existing behavior, simply wrap any
{{#time:..}} in <citation> tags. I know this might be a little
confusing, so please let me know if this isn't clear.

[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/311627/

Thanks,
-- Legoktm

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