I don't see why Wikipedia looks 99% fabulous in lynx and w3m, but blows it on such a simple thing like dates in tables,
$ lynx -dump http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites Please note the list is not exhaustive, and is limited to notable, well-known sites. Name Description/Focus Date launched [12]Registered users Registration Global [13]Alexa^[14][1] Page ranking [15]Academia.edu Social networking site for academics/researchers 02008-09-01September 2008 &0000000000211000000000211,000^[16][2] Open &00000000000092940000009,294^[17][3] [18]Advogato [19]Free and [20]open source software developers 01999 1999 &000000000001357500000013,575^[21][4] Open...
Why can't they go that extra one percent and clean all those silly zeros out of their tables?
Yes those stubborn text browser users should be denied extra features, but can't they at least be given something readable. Search engines would thank you too.
Sure you can say "not a MediaWiki problem, go contact the website", but if MediaWiki gave them the proper tools to make their templates, they wouldn't need to make such a mess.