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
Sorry for not responding earlier on this (since I started it). It seems that
something went wrong with my delivery of list messages and I had to look into
the Web archives. Anyway:

Concerning the Greek names for months and the way they work you can look in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflection for nice explanation and reference.
I believe the above suggestion by Timwi seems to solve the problem. Of course
somebody needs to remember what we are doing here so that in the future it
stays that way.

So the possessive case of Greek months along with their abbreviation, after the comma,
are (please keep the dots in abbreviations, it looks much better in Greek):

Ιανουαρίου, Ιαν.
Φεβρουαρίου, Φεβρ.
Μαρτίου, Μαρτ.
Απριλίου, Απρ.
Μαΐου, Μαΐου
Ιουνίου, Ιουν.
Ιουλίου, Ιουλ.
Αυγούστου, Αυγ.
Σεπτεμβρίου, Σεπτ.
Οκτωβρίου, Οκτ.
Νοεμβρίου, Νοεμβ.
Δεκεμβρίου, Δεκ.

I also attach a UTF-8 txt file with the above.
Now somebody needs to load all these.
Thanx
Andreas
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