User talk:Werdna/LQT Archive 1

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Whilst it's quite likely you'll have heard this news on the grapevine, in your email inbox, or even in person - I thought that it was sufficiently exciting to warrant giving each of you a 'new messages' orange bar! This particular orange bar has been brought to you to let you know that Wikimedia Australia is now open for members!

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Here's a little more about membership, and the mailing list in particular is well worth signing up to as well, and is a good forum to get answers to any questions answered, or to share any ideas. I've dropped these notes in under my own steam, and you've received one because you're on this list - feel free to ask me any questions, or anything - I can certainly point you in the right direction :-) cheers all, Privatemusings 04:05, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia sync script
What's with the no-userpage? --pfctdayelise 13:56, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Laziness. You can create it if you like :-) Andrew Garrett 02:37, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Bug 4582
It seems impossible that you could have fixed bug 4582, given that there is no agreement about what the solution should be. It is also very worrisome no plain-language explanation of the fix has been offered. --Gerry Ashton 03:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * A parser function   has been added, which does the same autoformatting of dates as linking, but without the linking. That fixed the bug as reported. Andrew Garrett 03:35, 10 March 2009 (UTC)


 * The original bug report says "As recently discussed on the EN village pump (proposals), please create syntax for marking dates to be rendered subject to date preferences that does not overload the link syntax, adn does not create a link. This could help avoid the perrenial debate on overlinking of dates User:DESiegel"


 * Now that the fix has been described in plain language, I see that it might be considered a fix, except that the phrase "date preferences" is not clearly defined, and it is not clear that a so-called fix that does not work for those who are not logged in qualifies as a fix. Even in the referenced discussion at the Village Pump, the problem of not doing anything for most of are readers is mentioned but it is not make clear what the proposal is asking for. --Gerry Ashton 03:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

It might be sensible to find further technical solutions to the ongoing problem, such as a more sensible default for the date format than "do no autoformatting at all". These should be opened as separate bugs. Andrew Garrett 07:23, 10 March 2009 (UTC)