| thiemowmde added a comment. |
This ticket asks for full localization as supported by MediaWiki core. I, personally, love to work on date parsing and formatting and already spend weeks (!) working on code required to fully solve this ticket some day. I will not throw everything away we did in the past four (!) years just because some people start yelling at me with no scientific arguments given.
I see the possibility for a few smaller improvements we could make:
- 12 of the 423 languages and language-variants MediaWiki currently supports name their default date format "ymd". These languages are namely crh (including variants), hu, kaa, and kk (including variants). We could disable the localization for these languages and display raw ISO dates instead. Users will not get better localization by doing so. But the order will be the same as the users expect. We might assume users being used to any kind of "ymd" ordering are less confused by "2017-11-10", even if it will be entirely unlocalized until we support full localization.
- About 20 more languages specify default date formats that start with the year, but are not named "ymd". Most notably gan, ko, and zh, including all their variants. We might add these to a blacklist and display raw ISO dates as well.
- We might add other languages to the same blacklist if requested and ISO is proven to be less confusing for native speakers.
I will not discuss globally disabling the mostly working localizations for the 368 languages (87%) that name their default date format "dmy".
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