[Bug 4582] Provide preference-based autoformatting for unlinked dates
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
--- Comment #196 from Stephen Turner <s.r.e.turner@...>
2008-11-01 08:36:33 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #195)
>
> Also, just as an aside, I happen to greatly prefer dates in "big-endian" format
> (i.e. YYYY-MM-DD format, which I DO NOT consider to be ISO, despite what
> Wikipedia labels it) and find that format both easier to read and more logical.
> I'm mentioning this mostly because a lot of people here and on Wikipedia seem
> to take it as a given that big-endian format is "unreadable" and that nobody
> wants it.
>
I think the "given" is a weaker one: that it shouldn't be presented to users
who haven't explicitly chosen that format, certainly in normal prose. So, given
the current code, no-one should write "the Second World War started on
[[1939-09-03]]", because unregistered and new users will see the date in that
format: worse, regular users won't even realise that that's what most people
are seeing.
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