https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15715
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from [email protected] 2009-05-30 00:43:26 UTC --- Several (perhaps most) opponents of date autoformatting are opposed to it at least in part because of the extra syntax. Although I'm strongly in support of date autoformatting, I do acknowledge that aspect of their argument as being entirely legitimate. "{{#formatdate:29 May 2009}}" is more complicated than "[[29 May]] [[2009]]" which is more complicated than "29 May 2009" although it's still up to debate whether that extra complication is worth the benefit of autoformatting or not. Another option here would be to keep the existing autoformatting syntax but to add a new user preference that would toggle linking on or off, and to have the default be "off" since that's what most people seem to want. I already have the user preferences portion written and would be glad to hand it off to Andrew (or whoever) to incorporate it into the date formatting code. -- 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 on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
