Steve Bennett wrote:
On 9/17/06, Ligulem ligulem@pobox.com wrote:
sake of syntax (ad-hoc rule: "No syntactic sugar templates"? ;-), which in this case I feel is a suboptimal idea as there aren't any editorial display format decisions to isolate (There is no "moving target" about the question how to display a date from an editorial viewpoint. There are just culture/language dependent display formats to choose from.)
How so? I'm not really sure why I seem to keep being told that my preferred date format is "9 July 2004". Personally, "9th of July, 2004" would be better. Nor am I convinced that editorial judgment never comes into this.
I think we are completely out of sync here.
The idea I had was that <date>2006-09-18</date> would for example be displayed as "September 18, 2006" on en.wikipedia.org *as defined by a per wiki setting* (an editable page in MediaWiki namespace?). An admin on en could change that to "18 September 2006" or whatever that wiki wants it (Duh, that would invalidate the cache of all pages. Smells like being the killer of that idea... :( ).
Users with a login could override that setting and use their personal date display from the list shown in their preferences. As we have it now (but only for the dates displayed
If editors on an article don't want to use the site wide display format for dates, then they can simply write the date as they do it today.
Ok. I think I had some interesting feedbacks on this now. Thanks everybody for reading and commenting. Seems really to be the best thing not to mess with the date display for anons.
--Ligulem