https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #273 from Bill Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008-12-05 16:07:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #271) > 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). Dates that use the [[:]] or [[|]] style of markup will still be linked but not autoformatted, just as they are now. It's only the dates with [[]] markup that will appear unlinked (and in "raw" format) on the page. Presumably some of the [[]] dates are ones that really *should* remain linked, and editors will need to change those to [[:]] or [[|]] format to re-enable the links after (if) the patch is applied. It's important to note that there are a number of editors that are manually removing ALL of the [[]] markup around links, RIGHT NOW. They've already removed thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of such links. In doing so they're also eliminating valuable markup that could be put to better use, or (if consensus dictates) re-enable date linking/autoformatting. The proposed (third) patch accomplishes the same goal as these editors -- eliminate date linking and autoformatting for [[]] dates while leaving [[:]] and [[|]] ones untouched -- but in a way that happens immediately and which is completely reversible. So instead of writing "everybody wins" I should have written "the people currently removing link syntax win, and the people (including me) who want to develop an improved parser function that depends on date markup don't lose quite as badly as they otherwise would." That better? -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
