https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #271 from Le Chat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-05 15:00:51 UTC --- Everyone wins with the third patch? Forgive me if I've misunderstood, but the third patch means not linking dates that are enclosed normally in [[...]], right? I can't see how ordinary editors can be said to "win" by being prevented from making links to dates in the normal way they make links to everything else; nor is it the developers' job to forcibly delink *all* existing dates (which would be the consequence of this patch - again unless I've misunderstood). Seems the optimum solution is to give up all futile attempts at social engineering and simply turn off the current autoformatting, allow dates to be linked or not just like anything else, and (when ready, if at all) introduce a simple new syntax (if not "magic word" then something else, doesn't really matter, obviously it is feasible since the current autoformatting does it) for producing alternative text output depending on user preference (/locale). Then the projects could decide whether to use this syntax for dates, for alternative spellings, alternative meanings of words or whatever. Or (preferably) not use it at all. -- 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
