Talk:Wikimedia Site Reliability Engineering
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Punctuation in Watchlist notices
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Hello.
On Wikipedia, as in the other projects here, I assume, correct punctuation is important.
Per [[WP:Copyedit#Punctuation]], two commas are missing in the following current message:
Wikimedia technical Operations is planning a major infrastructure migration on Wednesday, 12 September and Wednesday, 10 October 2018 at 14:00 UTC.
There should be one comma after "12 September", and one after "10 October 2018". Without the commas, the sentence falls into three parts, the second of which is dangling:
- Wikimedia Technical Operations is planning a major infrastructure migration on Wednesday
- 12 September and Wednesday
- 10 October 2018 at 14:00 UTC
"2018" is probably superfluous.
Regards HandsomeFella (talk) 19:02, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Hi. Watchlist notices are written locally on each wiki. I guessed that you meant the English Wikipedia, and found the notice you mention at w:en:MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages. Please let them know on the talkpage there. Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:25, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Actually, I'll just ping @Xaosflux here, for efficiency. :) Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 19:26, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Sure, fixed at w:en:MediaWiki:Watchlist-messages Xaosflux (talk) 20:15, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
- Feel free to request any other tweaks at w:en:MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages Xaosflux (talk) 20:17, 10 September 2018 (UTC)