I don't see what the big problem is.
Sure having dates autoformatted without linking them would be nice, but
really what's wrong with linking full dates?
Mgm
On 1/2/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/01/07, wikien-l-request(a)wikipedia.org
<wikien-l-request(a)wikipedia.org> wrote:
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Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 16:03:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Matt R <matt_crypto(a)yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates
per MoS?
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Message-ID: <22706.71300.qm(a)web25011.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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We have two competing MOS provisions because
square-bracketing dates
achieves
two unrelated effects: creating a link to the
article on that date, and
formatting it according to user preferences. It's really time we
separated
the
syntax for this (assuming we can find a suitable
solution and amenable
developers). See:
I'm working on something that might achieve this, pending performance
issues and testing; the whole sob saga is being documented on my
otherwise hideously-empty blog (
http://blog.anubite.co.uk) -- I'm
hoping to have it all done to fully-testable standards by the end of
the week.
Rob Church
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