[WikiEN-l] User date preferences (refactoring existing dates)

[Rob Church]

On 02/01/07, wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org
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> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:03:56 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Matt R <matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates
>         per MoS?
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> We have two competing MOS provisions because square-bracketing dates achieves
> two unrelated effects: creating a link to the article on that date, and
> formatting it according to user preferences. It's really time we separated the
> syntax for this (assuming we can find a suitable solution and amenable
> developers). See:

I'm working on something that might achieve this, pending performance
issues and testing; the whole sob saga is being documented on my
otherwise hideously-empty blog (http://blog.anubite.co.uk) -- I'm
hoping to have it all done to fully-testable standards by the end of
the week.


Rob Church