https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #268 from Bill Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-03 20:26:46 UTC --- (In reply to comment #267) > 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. It's not just "going to happen" -- it's already happening. That's what got me involved in this bug in the first place, since Tony (et al.) were refusing to hold off on delinking, and used the "lack of response" on this bug as an excuse. By their own estimates, they've already delinked tens of thousands of dates in thousands of articles. The RFCs are an attempt to get them to stop, or to at least get some GENUINE consensus support for their actions. I'd prefer to keep date autoformatting and actually LIKE the date links (I don't agree that "overlinking" is EVER an issue.. I'd prefer to see MORE links in articles, not fewer) but more importantly I want to see the markup left in place so that we have the option of doing something more useful with it in the future. With the markup, it would be trivial to have a bot replace the [[]] with a template or new syntax or whatever... but without the markup, all of that would need to be done manually, to confirm that we're not dealing with a date in a quote, or odd formatting edge cases like "On March 1, 500 people were killed" which could either mean that 500 people were killed on March 1 or that some unspecified number of people were killed on March 1, 500 A.D. If the consensus is that date autoformatting should be done away with and dates should not (usually) be linked, then I'd prefer to have that enforced by applying the third patch, since it would leave all the markup in place (and we could then proceed to start working on an improved date autoformatting for some future release). It would also accomplish the goal of Tony and his cohorts right away, without them having to edit untold number of articles. Everybody wins. -Bill -- 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
