https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #251 from Philippe Verdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-11-30 16:16:08
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I did not speak specifically about English Wikipedia (in fact I did not know
(or noticed) that you had implemented autoformatting there. I hope it was not
deployed too on French Wikipedia because I doubt that this "autoformatting"
will work correctly there and that you really know how French dates are
formatted !
For me, autoformatting dates is silly and this has to be at least fully
disabled as needed, i.e. everywhere its "guess" (about what is a date or not or
if this formatting is desired) is completely wrong, because the syntax it
recognizes is completely equivalent to the syntax used for normal links. Then
if you need a special keyword in the page to disable this guess and so to
disable autoformatting in links, you've done a wrong job: in fact the syntax
chosen for autoformatting was badly chosen.
Suggestion for the choice of the syntax (that DOES NOT create a link):
{{#2000-12-31}}. No conflict there because it uses the prefix for parser
functions, and no parser function can have a name starting by a digit... But I
wonder why you absolutely want a short syntax for dates specifically but not
for other features that may want a shorter syntax that would be much more
useful.
The need for autoformatting would mean that the writer of an article does not
know how to format a date in the SINGLE main language of the target Wiki (or
page or section, if a page can be marked specifically as using another target
language, something that is possible with the "xml:lang=" attribute name, which
is also already recognized by MediaWiki as the "lang=" atttribute name of HTML
elements). If that writer does not know that, what is the meaning of the rest
of the page, beside this isolate date? Can't the editor directly format the
date himself (including in templates that would like to format computed dates)?
On the same front, trying to remove links generated by the [[]] syntax should
not depend on the presence or not of the leading ":" because it is also part of
the syntax to separate the root (anonymous) namespace space before the article
name.
Yeah! Two hacks introduced recently in English Wikipedia (and badly
documented), two errors, and now you're thinking about compatiblity elsewhere ?
No. you shoulmd revert this "support", as it is completely UNNEEDED and
generates more problems than what it is supposed to solve.
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