[WikiEN-l] Re: Consistency

Wed Mar 24 03:39:04 UTC 2004

Nikola Smolenski wrote:

> On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:16, David Gerard wrote:
> 
>>On 03/23/04 05:59, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>>
>>>It is possible to change the software in such a way that, for example,
>>>{{num:km2:357022}} would render as 357,022 km<sup>2</sup> for users and
>>>visitors from Europe and as whichever mi<sup>2</sup> for users and
>>>visitors from the US.
>>
>>This is not a good idea. It will lead to silly pseudo-accuracy, of the
>>sort often seen in sloppy journalism: where "a thousand miles" in a US
>>wire report is carefully translated to "1.609 km" in an Australian
>>newspaper article.
> 
> [...] there could be workaround for 
> this, for example, {{num:~mi:1000}}

Actually, I think a much better idea would be to stick to kilometers and 
other international standard metric units, and hope for the best that 
the US abandon their weird units in the long run...