https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #264 from S. McCandlish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-02 10:53:41 UTC --- > Discussion on the English Wikipedia "Manual of Style (dates and numbers)" seems to be building a consensus to not do autoformatting, especially if non-logged-in readers do not benefit. If eventually autoformatting is no longer done, and gradually all autoformatting markup is removed, then someone who wants to link to an article about a date for some reason will have to use the odd syntax [[:February 30]], and since there will be few examples of autoformatting markup around, the reason for this odd syntax will not be apparent. That's a cart-before-the-horse issue, really. MOSNUM is castigating autoformatting because it creates a sea of blue. If THAT problem is solved, then there is no particular reason to oppose autoformatting, and as others have pointed out here there are other potential uses for autoformatting more generally (color/colour, etc.), if it doesn't overload the wikilinking function. -- 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
