https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=235
--- Comment #39 from tahrey <tah...@yahoo.com> 2011-10-17 13:32:40 UTC --- * tell metric using readers that they achieved a speed only 1km/h apart, not 3 (or more accurately 3.2) Ehh... Guess I shoulda double checked that one before posting. Still, let's say instead that one car reached 69mph and the other 70; without cross referencing one against the other, a mph-illiterate metric reader would then get the message that the slower car actually ran faster. Or a metric-illiterate one looking at articles of a 70mph and 71mph one ends up thinking that 1mph = 4km/h. The syntax for the convert tool can just be straight copied from one article to another without the editor responsible looking at any kind of instruction text or even being aware that there IS any (hi there, I did that too). It has to work in a sensible manner by default, and the advanced weirdo stuff should be an add-on for those who go looking for it. That or it's built into the syntax explicitly and it throws an error if it's not there. Making it run in an overly inaccurate manner that has to be purposely escaped from is just asking for trouble. Otherwise if we take this to the extreme and apply it the other way round, you get the troublesome situation of, e.g., a page on the speed limits in a european country mentioning that it's "90km/h (60mph)" because of the 1sf conversion... and depending how strict the local police are, going at 97km/h instead of 56mph could be enough for a ticket. Being 5mph out at the ~30mph limit level is definitely enough in a lot of places. -- 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 Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
