Trouble with that is that the vast majority of readers do not have accounts with user preferences to set. They are "unregistered" readers (some people create accounts purely to be able to set these preferences). What unregistered readers see is a mish-mash of different date formats, sometimes in the same article. Log out occasionally and see what the majority of our readers see. It can be quite a shock to have all the customised skins and user preferences taken away. Ditto for DVD and print versions of articles.
Carcharoth On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 1:47 AM, White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hard coded in the context of my message is when dates are typed out. Like > January, 20 1956 rather than soft coded [[1956-01-20]]. > Ideally all dates should always be soft coded and be modified by users > preferences. In reality the exact opposite of this is done. > > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>wrote: > >> 2009/2/6 White Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.n...@gmail.com>: >> >> > We are now forced to use US style dates... Thus it is the American >> > Encyclopedia internationals (non USians) should feel uncomfortable in >> > visiting let alone editing. >> >> (...) >> >> > In the past we had multiple correct ways. For example the use of ISO >> dates >> > (aka [[yyyy-mm-dd]] dates) were encouraged. Users could alter their >> settings >> > to display the dates in any way they please. The ISO dates were drafted >> as a >> > compromise to the international versus US date war. Now US dates are hard >> > coded. You do not get to alter it. >> >> "hard coded"? This is news to me and news to the Manual of Style. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSNUM#Full_date_formatting >> >> Perhaps you could provide some evidence to back up this assertion? >> >> -- >> - Andrew Gray >> andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
