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

[Andrew Gray]

On 02/01/07, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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.

Are you planning any way of having this be selective? I'm wondering
about the effect of "correcting" direct quotations, or the titles of
works cited as references...

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk