A self-updating template seems very unlikely to this non-programmer, but a
bot could certainly be created to handle these tasks. I wonder if that isn't
already done on, say, {{as of}} for example?On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 then becomes outdated and thus notably incorrect.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 > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
