[WikiEN-l] Rewriting the MOS in English

[K P]

On 5/21/07, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I couldn't do a wiki date to save my life, so I simply use my edit
> summaries
> > to request that someone format the date for me--I did try to look dates
> up
> > in MoS once, even got some great help, but decided it was too much work,
> > especially when total strangers who watch recent changes are willing to
> jump
> > in and format my dates.
> >
> > As all the folks doing my copyediting seem to have a handle on style
> issues,
> > as nobody ever insults my style *after* my posse has made it beautiful.
>
> If you're curious, dates are actually dead easy, you can pretty much
> enter them in any format you want as long as you link them. The date
> format will then be configured by MediaWiki and the user preferences.
> Example:
>
>
> [[December 24]] [[2006]]
> [[24 December]], [[2006]]
> [[2006]], [[December 24]]
>
> These will all render the same way, depending on your preferences. Of
> all the strange MediaWiki formatting things, this one is actually
> pretty simple :)
>
> --Oskar



The problem I have with dates is entering them in my references.  I seldom
use a date in an article's text, other than a year, because I do mostly
natural history articles, and some few biographies with other editors who do
the detail work (such as dates).  But I would like to know once and for all
how to enter a date in a reference so it shows up correctly, since you're
offering--this is inside the tag.  If it requires more than one comment,
though, skip it.

KP