The logical course of action is letting the reader decide the style. Making it modifiable. When the rule was first drafted we did not even have the ISO conversion technology (aka [[1956-01-20]] style). Now we do. We should take advantage of it.
- White Cat On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.wooll...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/02/2009, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > > 2009/2/8 White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com>: > >> 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. > > > > So your "hard coded" to use American dates is something that can be > > got around by, er, the editor not writing American dates? I am not > > seeing this as quite the catastrophe you are, and you could equally > > present it as the wiki being "forced" to use non-American date > > styles... > > All White Cat is saying is that the wikipedia needs markup(s) to > handle dates. And in fact, right now there are multiple markups > available, including American-style ones. > > > As for the underlying debate, we have thrashed out the date-linking > > issue before at great length, and your "ideal" is certainly not one > > shared by many other users. > > I've been seeing this argument a lot on the wikipedia lately. I've > never been able to see it as other than a call for straight voting to > determine issues rather than consensus; and that seems to be harmful. > I've frequently found that even what are initially minority opinions > can turn out to be the adopted position that consensus takes, indeed > that is probably usually the case, ideas are usually invented by > somebody and spread. > > > -- > > - Andrew Gray > > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > -- > -Ian Woollard > > We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. Life in a perfectly > imperfect world would be much better. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
