Hard coded in the context of my message is when dates are typed out. Like January, 20 1956 rather than soft coded [[1956-01-20]]. Ideally all dates should always be soft coded and be modified by users preferences. In reality the exact opposite of this is done.
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
