On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM, K. Peachey <p858sn...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: >> 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. > Thats not mark up, what your describing is style/layout. The markup > would be the wikicode surronding it it. > > For example it would be nice if we had a custom markup for date that > didn't link it, that could detect what was contained in it would be > nice and used the users perfernece for formatting first then fell back > to something else like the browser detection or a decided format (at > the moment it would appear to be American Dates). > I'm talking about something like <<DATE>> and then it would do > autoformatting of the date and it would also assist in the metadata > contained in the page as well, and also have the ability to force a > certain style and define date names as well (eg: > <<2008-12-25|f=Friday, 25 December 2008|name=Christmas Day (2008)>>)
<<2008-12-25|f=Friday, 25 December 2008|name=Christmas Day (2008)>> That is rather complex. Most editors are not going to want to type that. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
