https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #257 from S. McCandlish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-01 22:25:06
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That list seems to be missing the main one proposed, for which a patch has
already been written:
7. [[date]] would autoformat but NOT link, just as [[image]] and [[category]]
do something special and don't make a link, while [[:date]] would link but not
autoformat (just as [[:image]] and [[:category]] create links but don't do
anything special). If someone wants to link AND autoformat, which frankly
would be kind of weird, they can use template code, examples of which have
already been posted.
I think it is important to keep in mind that the main impetus behind this bug
report is the "sea of blue" problem. I think few of us would cry if the
autoformatting just plain stopped, but I don't think many have been actually
asking for that, and resolving the sea-of-blue problem doesn't require that,
nor require new features, like a new <<date>> or {{#date}} or {{DATE:date}}
syntax.
Imagining some wiki where linking to actual articles on every conceivable date
would make sense AND where autoformatting is important (I cannot think of any
practical application of this, but let's pretend), this can just be handled
with templates. Enwiki is awash in useless, reader-distracting date links (I
want to point out that the frequent kvetching against Tony1 about that here is
a red herring; many, many users have been removing such date links), and as the
most-used wiki in the world, by several orders of magnitude, not to mention the
Wikimedia flagship and thus the source of funding for MediaWiki to even have
this site to argue about bugs, I don't feel we can just throw up our hands and
not resolve this, in an enwiki-favorable manner.
My vote is to just do #7, and keep this as simple as possible, so that it
actually proceeds instead of sitting here as a languishing bone of contention
for another 2 years.
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