[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Edited] T95553: Full stop in messages such as Wikibase-time-precision-century is incorrect in English

2018-07-17 Thread Jc86035
Jc86035 updated the task description. (Show Details) CHANGES TO TASK DESCRIPTIONThe full stop in messages such as "$1. century" is useful in German, because its spelling rules mandate a full stop after numbers in some cases, but it is probably not needed in English. This is also completely incorre

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Edited] T95553: Full stop in messages such as Wikibase-time-precision-century is incorrect in English

2018-07-17 Thread Jc86035
Jc86035 updated the task description. (Show Details) CHANGES TO TASK DESCRIPTION...This is also completely incorrect in English, as well as a lot of other languages, as a time labelled "20. century" actually indicates a time in the period 2000–2099, and "20th century" in English is the period 1901–

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Edited] T95553: Full stop in messages such as Wikibase-time-precision-century is incorrect in English

2018-07-17 Thread Jc86035
Jc86035 updated the task description. (Show Details) CHANGES TO TASK DESCRIPTIONThe full stop in messages such as "$1. century" is useful in German, because its spelling rules mandate a full stop after numbers in some cases, but it is probably not needed in English. This is also completely incorre

[Wikidata-bugs] [Maniphest] [Edited] T95553: Full stop in messages such as Wikibase-time-precision-century is incorrect in English

2018-07-17 Thread Jc3s5h
Jc3s5h updated the task description. (Show Details) CHANGES TO TASK DESCRIPTION...Because of Wikibase's nonstandard date handling, some dates labelled "20. century" may actually be interpreted as a time in the period 2000–2099 by Wikibase components other than the user interface, and by software ot