This can be done in India too.
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From: Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com
Date: 09-Oct-2014 2:38 am
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon
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Hi, all!
The winner of the
Hi,
Some Wikimedia projects in languages of India have Indian time defined as
the default time zone. Some don't. For precise info see:
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
Search that file for wgLocaltimezone. You'll see that some projects have
Asia/Kolkata as
Dear Shyamal,
Awesome! Congrats to the organizers for creating a useful coordination
page!
I have signed up for the online edit-a-thon and I am looking forward to
create a few articles during the next few days. I will also be around to
help with categorization of the results. I can also
Hi,
Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised.
In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside
India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This
cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A
simpler and better way could
Sudhanwa, while I don't know about Indian language projects, I do know that
on the English Wikipedia, we have (or atleast used to) a standard date
format of -MM-DD. This is a reversed order which I assume would be
relatively easy to follow since even machines understand it.
Cheerio.
On
Oh, thanks for bringing that up.
The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) has information about date formats
for different languages and countries. MediaWiki already uses the CLDR for
some information, and can possibly use it for date formats as well. I'll
pass this on to the engineers.
--
Amir
+1 Srikanth Ramakrishnan
The ISO 8601 format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 for date too
corresponds to the same above (-MM-DD) format.
Real advantages of this format are (1) Non-ambiguity, (2) Correct sort
order even when data is processed as pure text and (3) international
