Timwi wrote:

Delirium wrote:
> Timwi wrote:
> 
>> Delirium wrote:
>>
>>> There may be cases I'm not covering, but for the one I can 
>>> immediately see in the interface, the issue is that "day month" type 
>>> dates use the possessive form of the month name, while month names 
>>> used by themselves use a simple noun form.
>>
>> [... etc. ...  'Maios' vs. '5h Maiou']
>>
>> Ah-ha. I kind of thought so. So why don't you just do this:
>>
>> - Set the month name to "Maio"
>> - In a sentence like "{{MONTHNAME}} is nice", write "{{MONTHNAME}}s 
>> estis bioutiphulos"
>> - Set the date format to "{{DAY}} {{MONTHNAME}}u {{YEAR}}"
>> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
> 
> Well, unfortunately one part I had left out were the accents, which 
> shift when the word becomes possessive.  To take the example from 
> Andreas's email, the simple noun form of June is "Ioúnios", whereas the 
> possessive form is "Iouníou".  So it would really need a separate 
> {{MONTHNAMEPOSSESSIVE}} or something of that sort.

OK. Next idea:

(1) Set the month names to be the possessive forms, e.g. "Iouníou",
     so they can be used normally in dates throughout the site.
(2) Create thingies in the Template namespace that contain the
     nominative forms, e.g. [[Template:Nominative-Iouníou]] would
     contain "Ioúnios".
(3) Whenever you need the nominative, instead of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}
     write {{Nominative-{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}}}}.

How's that?
Timwi