The {{#time:}} ParserFunction: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions#.23time
Tell translators in the description to fill in whatever code from that list is correct in their language. So for English it'll be "j F Y", for Norwegian "j. F Y", for Farsi "xij xiF xiY" (I think). And then in the code it'll be just {{#time:j F Y|2014-06-06}}, and you tell translators to keep the date the same, but change the codes if necessary. 2014-05-06 19:43 GMT+02:00 James Alexander <jalexan...@wikimedia.org>: > The {{formatnum:6}} makes sense, I can add that in, (as I said earlier > I'm happy for people to change it for their own numerical system, but that > would certainly be easier). I don't know about a good way to call the > formate date function sadly :-/ I tried to pick the 'most' universal option > but it certainly isn't perfect and I completely agree with you that a > format date format would be useful. > > James Alexander > Legal and Community Advocacy > Wikimedia Foundation > (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur > > > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > >> Doesn't MediaWiki offer for all Wikimedia wikis the necessary support for >> formating dates according to user preferences or local wiki defaults for >> signatures? >> If so, the number 6 you want will be inappropriate in Arabic and in many >> date formats for South Asian languages using other digits. >> MediaWiki offers {{formatnum:6}} for this purpose, it is easy to infer >> where it is in the translation if you intend to change it. However June is >> also the 6th month of the year (same day number) and you may wonder which >> field is the day part if you don't know if the date uses "d;m;y" or "m:d;y" >> formatting order (some languages don"t really have names for Gregorian >> dates, but append a speific suffix to numbers to indicate if this is a >> year, month or day, such as Chinese). >> >> A very small script will generate the formated dates that are then easy >> to update in translations, even if you don't want to use templates for that >> (because templates are wiki-dependant and their name vary). >> But things would be even easier if all wikis had a parserfunction for >> formatting dates given a matching language code (if the format is unknown >> for that language, just use the ISO 8601 format yyy-mm-dd which is not >> ambiguous in all existing languages, even if it is not the most usual >> format for that language. >> I just hope that one day we'll have a parser function like >> {{formatdate:2014-06-06|ymd|language-code}} that will format the date using >> the 3 fields (not padded with zero if not needed, but not rounded to 2 >> digits with the appropriate order, suffixes and separators, and possibly >> their names; all in the appropriate script) >> >> CLDR data has this info and there's even a demo in the Unicode CLDR >> website. >> >> >> >> 2014-05-06 2:07 GMT+02:00 James Alexander <jalexan...@wikimedia.org>: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> The Legal team will be announcing later this week (currently planned for >>> Wednesday) the start of a 30 day notice period that the privacy policy will >>> be changing. This is the privacy policy that was discussed over a multi >>> month period on wiki ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy ) >>> and was recently approved by the board. You can find the banner text to >>> translate (using the translate extension) at >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=Centralnotice-tgroup-PPChangeNotice2014&filter=. >>> >>> If possible (transliteration is fine) we want to keep the day part of >>> the date ( 6 ) as a number so that, if the announcement date gets pushed >>> back for some reason or another, we can adjust the official starting date >>> without affecting the translations much. >>> >>> Michelle is still finishing the blog post itself but the plan is to have >>> it available for translation as well so that over the course of the month >>> we can get it up in as many translations as possible. >>> >>> If you'd prefer you can also send me the translation off list and I'm >>> happy to insert it. The current text is: >>> Our Privacy Policy is changing on 6 June 2014. >>> To learn more, click here. >>> >>> We also have the 'close' text (shown you hover over the close button) >>> saying: Close >>> >>> James Alexander >>> Legal and Community Advocacy >>> Wikimedia Foundation >>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Translators-l mailing list >>> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Translators-l mailing list >> Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Translators-l mailing list > Translators-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l > > -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
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