Transform the date in the author line to user preference date format:
"Von username (talk · contribs) · 29 Bearbeitungen seit 2011-11-05"
Expected output:
"Von username (talk · contribs) · 29 Bearbeitungen seit 5. Juni 2011"
Version: master
Severity: trivial
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed?uselang=de
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | BUG REPORT | None | T40079 Transform date in the author line to user preference date format | ||
| Open | Feature | None | T21992 Support client-side date/time formatting for user's timezone, language, and preferred format (JavaScript) |
The problem is this is all being done on the client side, and the API is not aware of the user's date format, or even that there is a user. Perhaps we need to build some date handling functionality into mw.language or mw.util.
First step will be to retrieve the user's date format preference:
mw.user.options.get( 'date' )
This will return one of the following:
This looks like it's actually going to be rather difficult to fix as the formatting depends on having access to about 1500 formatting strings (5 formats x 300 languages) which currently aren't available on the client side. Siebrand says the i18n team is eventually going to implement a solution for this, but suggests in the meantime we work around the problem by having our API handle the formatting on the server-side. This will require some refactoring in PageTriage so it might be a little while before it gets implemented.
See also: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43365 which involves tz correction
See also Brion on http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-December/065400.html
I'm not sure if we have full localization for dates in JS...
...but you can use the browser's built-in support. You won't get the same
formatting, and it may not match the user's *time zone preference* in
MediaWiki...eg
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleString
The date is now localised to the user's language, but it does not format based on user preference.