https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #246 from S. McCandlish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-11-28 06:29:51 UTC --- > Just because the English Wikipedia decided it doesn't think dates should be linked anymore, doesn't mean we should force that on every user of MediaWiki. It's really the opposite, though. Someone, back when, decided it would be a good idea to operator overload linking and date autoformatting, and this was pushed on user of WP and every other MW installation. Today, virtually everyone who has thought about it agrees that it was a bad idea. > Insulting the people trying to help isn't really going to get them to help. I absolutely agree, and want to point out that not everyone involved here is being negative. I appreciate the time and analysis you've put into this, and fully understand that you cannot just go implement something without understanding its ramifications, nor implement "something A" when "something B" and "something C" have also been proposed. > I really don't like the idea of having normal wikilink syntax do something, > but not actually make a link. Strikes me as a non-issue, since [[image]] and [[category]] already do non-linky things. I think it is more accurate to think of [[something]] as "take an action" code. That "action" is most commonly creating a wikilink, but for a very long time has obviously also had alternative meanings depending upon context. This wouldn't be any different, and having [[date]] not create a link but do autoformatting instead, and [[:date]] create a link, is actually more, not less, consistent with this [[something]] model. In very, very few cases is there any need for a date to actually be linked; probably far fewer cases than there are cases (e.g. on "Wikipedia:"-namespace pages where images and categories are being discussed) of categories and images needing to be wikilinked to instead of being inlined or being added as a category to a page, respectively. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
