[WikiEN-l] Re: Announcing a policy proposal

Mon May 16 20:57:57 UTC 2005

Zhengzhu's script for maintaining side-by-side traditional and
simplified chinese articles should work just as well for side-by-side
US and Queen's English articles.  We should try that out...

SJ

On 5/16/05, Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> Rick said:
> > --- Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> >> It would certainly be nice if each use of units was
> >> quoted in both
> >> systems though, unless it makes no sense to do so
> >> (e.g.
> >> non-engineering-oriented science articles).  Putting
> >> in miles is
> >> appropriate, but not providing a conversion for them
> >> is sloppy.
> >>
> >> -Mark
> >
> > It's not sloppy if the editor doesn't know how to do
> > the conversion.
> >
> 
> Wouldn't it be cool to have some kind of macro system for pint,
> liter/litre, kilogram/kilogramme, foot, and whatnot--something not unlike
> the date conversion system we use, that enables me to see 8 October, 1988
> where an American would see October 8, 1988.
> 
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