On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> > wrote: >>> Better would have been fixing it to work better. Not leaving links in >>> the HTML. Sensible defaults for non-logged-in users; most modern >>> browsers send information on the user's language preference, including >>> UK versus US; how much such preferences are accurately set I'm not >>> sure, but it's there. >> >> Agreed. Trouble is, there was foot-dragging going on and no-one really >> working on it. Then, when date-delinking started and some people >> started working (or resuming work) on a technical solution, there was >> too much momentum and the speed of the bot operations almost certainly >> discouraged those who had been working on technical solutions. Lots of >> bad-faith assumptions and foot-dragging and forcing "solutions" >> through. > > Once or twice upon a time I suggested adding some kind of non-link > links table, so that one can enjoy a functionality similar to > whatlinkshere without linking the date (in cases where no link was > desired), for data analysis purposes such as dynamically generated > timelines (future toolserver project perhaps) and greater ease in > populating and maintaining year/month/day articles. Needless to say > nobody knew or cared what I was on about.
As a technical note, CSS3 promises to have nifty features, such as adding text based on class. It might be that we can then realize indivudualized dates via CSS rather than JavaScript. Magnus _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
