MediaWiki talk:Nextn

"Earlier"/"later"?
Unfortunately, we can't rename these to "earlier" and "later" since they are also used in Category listings, which are not chronological. See 4777 and 5310 — Omegatron 00:20, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * (I fixed the links in Omegatron's comment above.) --ais523 16:35, 2 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, that makes sense. Maybe we can do something else about the page history, e.g. change "latest | earliest" to something else?  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  11:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Noo. The software needs to be fixed so that we can change it to earlier and later.  I already made that change once before I realized it screwed up categories, as you can see in the history.  Apparently it needs to be fixed anyway so that other languages can separate the feminine and masculine versions of the words.  Hmmm....  Is there any way to use template magic to make it display differently on different pages? — Omegatron 14:08, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Possibly... change the text to 'div name=x former, div name=y previous' or somesuch, then on the respective pages set either div to display=none. Not sure if that'll work but it's worth a try.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  22:17, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Object to this: not all browsers use CSS, and it's worthwile maintaining portability. The change had better be done by the devs in the software itself, if it's done at all. --ais523 10:44, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, CSS with divs wouldn't be a good solution. I was thinking of something involving templates, like the templates that show different content when you are previewing or that say "this template belongs on the talk page".  I'm not sure how those are implemented, though.  — Omegatron 12:22, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Those templates could be based on the magic word and ParserFunctions; however, this will only work if MediaWiki:Nextn uses wikimarkup. (It's not obvious whether it's a wikimarkup, HTML, or plain-text system message from the current content). --ais523 13:47, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm, good point. I'll see what I can do about those two bugs, they can't be that hard.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  15:18, 2 October 2006 (UTC)