Well, the *proper* fix is a sane discussion system where messages are first-class objects and timestamps are clean metadata that can be displayed appropriately. :)
As a hack for existing talk pages though, what you're proposing should work. Parsing the timestamps in the text is a bit tough as it may be different in different languages.... my recommendation is to include a 'data-timestamp' attribute on that span and put in a language-independent machine-readable timestamp format. See also older discussion on bug 5347 < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5347> and 19992 < https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19992> about possible implementations of this sort of thing. -- brion On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Cyril <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently tried to create a small javascript to parse user signature times > on talk pages [1]. With it the readers would have been able to see the > signature's timestamp in their preferred timezone (and as a side effect it > would be consistent with the revision history) without breaking caching. > > The main problem I had was that MediaWiki didn't provide a class attribute > wrapping the date nor the whole signature. There is a bug report on that > topic: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25141 > > After some time spent looking for a system message it seems the only > solution is to edit includes/parser/Parser.php. I added a span with a class > at this line: > > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=blob;f=includes/parser/Parser.php;h=5b14ad21b951e81980ed6841876f259eb057dd87;hb=HEAD#l4532 > > It works fine (at least in my own - limited - case). > > Some questions related to what I've done: > - Would it be possible to wrap dates, or at least signatures in a class, as > suggested in bug #25141? it may be useful for others too > -- or perhaps to have a system message for dates (I'm not sure it's a good > idea) > - Is Parser.php the good place for that? > - Would a similar solution see its way into MediaWiki some day? or are > there problems I'm not seeing? (I'm not suggesting my script would be it, > it's a quick and dirty hack created with very limited knowledge.) > > > [1] using Moment.js <http://momentjs.com/> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
