2009/2/6 White Cat <[email protected]>: > We are now forced to use US style dates... Thus it is the American > Encyclopedia internationals (non USians) should feel uncomfortable in > visiting let alone editing.
(...) > In the past we had multiple correct ways. For example the use of ISO dates > (aka [[yyyy-mm-dd]] dates) were encouraged. Users could alter their settings > to display the dates in any way they please. The ISO dates were drafted as a > compromise to the international versus US date war. Now US dates are hard > coded. You do not get to alter it. "hard coded"? This is news to me and news to the Manual of Style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting Perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up this assertion? -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
