Many Special pages need constant width date, else columns won't line up
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	Jidanni
	Jun 14 2009, 8:53 AM

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Special:NewPages needs a constant width date field, else the start of
each article's name won't line up, and gets knocked left and right,
unless they are of the same
month, and don't cross the 9th/10th of the month boundary.

Sure, one could go the whole hog and make the whole wiki use the
industrial $wgDefaultUserOptions['date']='ISO 8601'; or the user can
change his Preferences, but just for this one page? Anyway, perhaps
just use "14:22 2009-04-07", which isn't one of MessagesEn.php
$dateFormats anyway. My apologies to Taiwan's Minguo year, Japan's ...
etc. See also bug 18305 (but that doesn't involve months and years.)

Version: 1.21.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://abj.jidanni.org/index.php?title=Special:NewPages
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18305

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Reference: bz19187

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:42 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Special-pages.

• bzimport set Reference to bz19187.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Jidanni created this task.Jun 14 2009, 8:53 AM

Like recentchanges and many other output views in MediaWiki, this list wasn't designed as a table. While it could be redesigned as one, there's no pressing need to, particularly on this issue alone.

Trivial to fix, quite unlike recentchanges with its several different types of lines.
And no need for tables too. This Special Page is the bread and butter of the smallest wikis.
Look how pretty the above URL looks, compared to the default hodgepodge,
even with the barf ISO 8601 time.

Look how pretty

Er, 40% less ugly. Still 60% ugly. Hmmm.

Changing Summary, as same case with Special:Contributions and probably many other special pages.

[Removing RESOLVED LATER as discussed in http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-November/064240.html . Reopening and setting priority to "Lowest". For future reference, please use either RESOLVED WONTFIX (for issues that will not be fixed), or simply set lowest priority. Thanks a lot!]

• Reguyla moved this task from To triage to SpecialPage system on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.May 26 2015, 12:46 PM

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:02 AM

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