https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58391
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Bug ID: 58391
Summary: [time ui] commas as thousands separator for years
faulty
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
Assignee: wikidata-b...@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: fe...@fex-it.de
CC: wikidata-b...@lists.wikimedia.org
Classification: Unclassified
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Commas are used as a thousands separator for years.
The year 10000 is displayed as "10,000". This is fine.
For larger year, like 10 million years, instead of
"10,000,000" (2 commas) only "10000,000" (1 comma) is displayed.
Besides the simple UI flaw, this also leads to irritations as it seems for
speakers of languages which use commas as decimal mark, that the precision is
changed and that instead of 10 million, 10 thousand with a precision of 3
decimal places (10,000.000) is stored in the database.
Examples:
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q744718
Start is 358.9 million years ago.
Displayed is "358900,000 years ago" (1 comma).
Correct would be "358,900,000 years ago" (2 commas) or,
respecting precision=4 "358.9 million years ago".
- https://test.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108
year is "12345670000".
Displayed is "in 12345670,000 years" (1 comma).
Correct would be "in 12,345,670,000 years" (3 commas).
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