https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #267 from cypsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-03 19:11:40 UTC --- (In reply to comment #266) > Seems to me that all the devs need to do is to provide a magic word for user > locale Notwithstanding that magic words cannot be made subject to user, this bug is evidence that per-user content is a terrible idea. Besides, /articles/ that are locale-specific (cf. ENGVAR), not users. (In reply to comment #256) > [list of options] If MediaWiki were wikipedia-specific, option #2 would be fine. But MediaWiki is used by other sites too, who may be expecting dateformatting to work as it has done so far. Among the listed options, the only realistic options is #1 since that does not affect anything but en.wiki. But the resultant "seas of red" will of course not be an improvement over "seas of blue". (In reply to comment #264) > That's a cart-before-the-horse issue, really. MOSNUM is castigating > autoformatting because it creates a sea of blue. True, but it is not /just/ that the seas of blue exist, but that there is no alternative and -- to judge from this bugzilla ticket -- no hope that an alternative will be forthcoming. Once editors/bots begin mass de-linking dates (and the RFCs indicate that this is going to happen) there will be no horse to put the cart before. -- 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
