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

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

I don't see what the big problem is.
Sure having dates autoformatted without linking them would be nice, but
really what's wrong with linking full dates?

Mgm


On 1/2/07, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/01/07, wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org
> <wikien-l-request at wikipedia.org> wrote:
> > Message: 4
> > 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?
> > To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> > Message-ID: <22706.71300.qm at web25011.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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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
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