Author: Ryanpostlethwaite
Description:
The recent date linking poll on the English Wikipdia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll) means that dates will no longer be routinely linked. This means that autoformatting of the links will no longer work (and will be inconsistent because the few dates which are linked will be autoformatted creating articles with multiple date formats). The poll also shows a good majority of the community are against autoformatting altogether. Date preferences in article histories, logs e.t.c. however should be left intact.
Disabling DynamicDates (setting $wgUseDynamicDates = false in LocalSettings.php) leads to autoformatting of articles being turned off, whilst leaving history/log preferences intact. This has been tested on a private wiki and works fine so please enable this on the English Wikipedia per the result of the poll.
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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Date_formatting_and_linking_poll