[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Hyperlink convention

e2m e2m at ig.com.br
Wed Sep 29 09:27:26 UTC 2004


Por que este recurso não é usado para tratar com as diferenças do tipo  
"behaviour" e "behavior" ou "center" and "centre"?

Why this resource is not used to deal with the differences of the type  
"behaviour" and "behavior" or "center" and "centre"?

e2m


Em Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:46:37 +0100, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> escreveu:

>> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:35 +0530, shantanu oak wrote:
>
>
>> > But I completely fail to understand why certain words are hyperlinked.
>> > For e.g. in the following para why does the date January 27 is linked?
>> > I clicked on that date and could not find anything related to the
>> > current page i.e. MandrakeSoft.
>
> Two reasons that dates are linked are:
> 1) so you can use "what links here" from the date pages to find
> everything that happened on that date
> 2) so that the date is shown in your preferred format. This can be set
> in your preferences and allows you see [[3 August]] as [[August 3]]
> which prevents people edit warring over date formats. This preference
> isn't available on all Wikipedias, so the rule might be something
> specific to en.
>
> Angela.
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