On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:24 PM, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > Recap: A while ago we discussed date conditional switching templates: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-May/100714.html . > The problem to be corrected was the use of future tense language which > then becomes outdated and thus notably incorrect. This also has a > greater effect of casual correction patterns which essentially > annotate the error rather than fixing it. For example: > > ""Apple's iTunes store *will start* to sell DRM-free 256 kbit/s (up > from 128 kbit/s) AAC encoded music from EMI for a premium price (this > has since reverted to the standard price)."" > > A proper correction would have simply changed "will start [to sell]" > to "began [to sell]" and that would be that. Time and tenses require a > little bit of thinking however, and an editor made a parenthetical > comment (edit note, annote) in place of a considered switch of tense. > Forgivable but incorrect. If the {{dateswitch}} template idea was > fully implemented and used, anyone writing future events could simply > write {{dateswitch|will start|began|ON DATE}} and the switch would > happen on the date. > > The idea had some support, but people had some issues with dateswitch > templates that would produce the wrong output because of some later > change in the input. I guess that this might be more rare than common. > The above example is notable however of where they miss the point. I > note that we now have a category for some tags which relate to time, > but I don't know about some of them: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Temporal_templates These appear > to be largely template messages, and if we are to employ actual > computational power in helping deal with outdating, would it make > sense to make a distinction between temporal messages and temporal > (functional) tags? > > -SC >
Could a temporal template in one way or another subst: itself once the expiriation date passes? Now that would be awesome. Martijn _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
