On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:05:46 +0100, Pete/Pcb21 pete_pcb21_wpmail@pcbartlett.com wrote:
Angela wrote:
- so you can use "what links here" from the date pages to find
everything that happened on that date
But the day of year and year are linked separately, making this effectively useless. I'd much prefer to link each day individually, but this task may be too monumental to do (not so much in terms of writing and using the appropriate script - but in terms of getting widespread agreement)
I think the idea is that you can research a list of anniversaries / "on this day" by investigating links in "what links here". I suppose you could have a redirect for every single date in history (that's 730,000 to cover from the New Testament to the present; oh, and that's assuming you only have one valid form for each date, of course...), but for one thing you'd max out the what links here display for the targets (assuming [[4 November 1982]] would redirect to [[4 November]]) without showing a single real page.
And what would you gain exactly? You'd still have to refine the list into a manually edited page to make it in any way interesting or useful, and the result would be... well, remarkably similar to what we have now, I imagine.