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::In a long list of items, when the presentation of quantities' formatting randomly changes, it can be quite distracting: "42 apples, 67 oranges, 45 pears, three grapefruits, seven cherries, 56 grapes, and one watermelon." As Pmanderson notes, the reader will be befuddled. [[User:Dabomb87|Dabomb87]] ([[User talk:Dabomb87|talk]]) 04:48, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

:::See [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedit/handbook/numberdate.html]. [[User:Dabomb87|Dabomb87]] ([[User talk:Dabomb87|talk]]) 22:15, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

== Son of Autoformatting II: The experiment continues ==

The demo code has been updated to deal with various issues discussed above:

* [http://gdnet-demo.berkeley.edu/testwiki/index.php/Main_Page http://gdnet-demo.berkeley.edu/testwiki/index.php/Main_Page]

:'''IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING PRIVACY:''' ''I have access to the server logs on the above server, which means that (in theory) I can find out the [[IP address]] used to access that website. If you create an account on that wiki for testing (which is encouraged) you should '''NOT''' use any personally identifying information such as your real name or your Wikipedia username. Also feel free to connect through whatever proxy you like, to further protect your own identity.''

Changes in this version:

* Anon users now see "no autoformatting" and "no automatic links" as a default.

* Registered users can now completely disable date autoformatting.

* Per-page overrides can now be allowed or disallowed as a (registered) user preference.

* More cases handled for "parenthetical" dates in MDY format.

I changed the default for anon users in this version because that seemed to be what people wanted when I first started making updates.. but in the meantime it seems that popular opinion is swinging back the other way, and people may ''want'' anons to have a DMY default so they see a consistent format. I'll leave it as "no autoformatting" for now, but it can be switched to whatever we want, once we've had a look at all the options. Similarly for the "date linking" and "per-page overrides" options, which can be set however we like for anons.

I'll work on autoformatting for date ranges next, as well as whatever other bugfixes people point out in this version. I'll also make the source code available soon, but given the four other now-obsolete patches I submitted for this project already, I'd rather just wait until it's pretty much done and submit the final version. --[[User:UC Bill|UC_Bill]] ([[User talk:UC Bill|talk]]) 21:04, 26 January 2009 (UTC)