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Numbering scheme[edit]
The number scheme 2022-09
as used in dissemination like that is misleading and confusing.
- By ISO 8601 this is to be interpreted as “September 2022”.
- If I do not know that it is distributed on weekly rather than monthly basis I would assign the wrong time in year for the first 12 issues.
Tech/News/2022/09
is much better to identify volume 2022, issue 09.- Please identfy like
2022/09
in future.
Greetings --PerfektesChaos (talk) 15:34, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
- @PerfektesChaos Hi. Good point, and thanks for the clear details.
- Unfortunately, some people might be equally confused by
2022/09
. - We're thinking about how to resolve this in a way that doesn't result in a need for more translation efforts (i.e. without using more translatable words, e.g. "week/issue/edition").
- IIUC, there is also the small added complexity that
/
would be converted into%2F
within URLs that are copy&pasted elsewhere, which would make the end of URLs look like#Tech%2FNews%2F2022%2F06
(vs the current#Tech_News:_2022-06
). - So, there are benefits and drawbacks to all the options... :-/ But we'll keep thinking about it, and other ideas are appreciated. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 20:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- Looking over my keyboard I detect in ASCII
Tech News: 2022, 09
Tech News: 2022; 09
Tech News: 2022 (09)
Tech News: 2022 '09
Tech News: 2022:09
#
is not appreciated in fragment identifiers. Both.
and§
have other shortcomes.- Latin letters are not compatible with a cultural multiverse project. Even in France they are using semaine and would not catch a
w
for week and Germans are not familiar with issue. - Best, --PerfektesChaos (talk) 11:59, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- On URL fragments: I think I might be wrong on that one... I was guessing that based on my regular frustration with
?
turning into%3F
, and the list of w:Percent-encoding#Reserved_characters. But, I've now found some examples, and after testing it seems we don't need to worry about/
(e.g. w:(α/Fe) versus (Fe/H) diagram becomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(%CE%B1/Fe)_versus_(Fe/H)_diagram when I paste it.) - On wording: Oh, what I meant was... There's a new feature that enables translatable headers in massmessages, and so we were already trying to think of how to improve the header (phab:T302920). We want to avoid changing it from
Tech News: $year-$week
toTech News: $year, week $week
(or similar) where the word "week" is translatable before it is sent. We want to avoid adding any more translatable words, if possible. - We will probably end up using
Tech/News/2022/09
, partially because that's the actual page-title! But we're not rushing any change. HTH. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 18:16, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
- On URL fragments: I think I might be wrong on that one... I was guessing that based on my regular frustration with
- Looking over my keyboard I detect in ASCII