https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #265 from Alexfusco5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-02 22:54:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #264) > > 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. > 2 things need to be noted. 1) The English Wikipedia is not the only website using mediawiki 2) There is also probably going to be a configurable default set -- 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
