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Allow display of dates according to date formatting preferences without links
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Author: foxhill_matt

Description:
With the depreciation of wikilinking full dates on Wikipedia to prevent overlinking etc, wouldn't it be useful to allow the following -
<date>25 August 2005</date>
<date>2005-08-25</date> etc to be displayed as previously without linking to articles?


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:22 PM
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Prefer {{#date:}}, due to being able to use wikitext in the contents (so we can pull from templates, parser functions, etc)

matthew.britton wrote:

Yes, a new {{#date:}} parser function would be the best way to do this.

Given the idiotic drama that the English Wikipedia is now making about date linking/delinking, is there any chance I can bump up the priority on this? Right now silly measures are being taken, like having parameters in templates that specify the date format and then people squabbling over which format gets used in "their" articles. It would be MUCH easier if these things just respected users' date preferences.

wclark wrote:

Another option here would be to keep the existing autoformatting syntax but to add a new user preference that would toggle linking on or off, and to have the default be "off" since that's what most people seem to want. I already have the user preferences portion written and would be glad to hand it off to Andrew (or whoever) to incorporate it into the date formatting code.

MacGyverMagic wrote:

I don't see the need for any extra coding. There's only a handful of possible date formats which all can be predicted. Is it really that hard to take any date displayed in an article and treat it according to a user's set preferences?

MacGyverMagic, the format of dates in direct quotes and programming language examples should not be changed, and there are so many ways to indicate direct quotes that it would not be feasible to detect whether or not a date was within a direct quote. Also I beleive Brian Vibber (spelling?) has rejected this concept

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:01 AM
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Date autoformatting has been gone for ages.