[Mediawiki-l] is there a macro/template for monetary inflation?

[Dan Kelley]

In a wiki I'm working on, there are some prices of old computers.  (I 
want to make the point, to my students, that computers have gotten a 
lot cheaper since the days when I was a lad.)

It would be great to have a macro that would do dollar conversions from 
an arbitrary year to the present day (or to another arbitrary year).  
Such things exist on the web as excel spreadsheets, etc., so the data 
are available.

Q: does mediawiki have this already?  I guess I could just write the 
PHP code myself and put it in my own wiki setup, but it would make 
sense to use something pre-existing.

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