User talk:Remember the dot/ISO date format unifier.js

Dates in URLs, autosummary

Just an FYI, currently this script doesn't discern between dates in prose and templates and those in URLs. It should be simple to write a heuristic that catches at least *some* such instances, shouldn't it?

Also, could you add an auto-summary to the script (something like "convert ISO dates to MDY/DMY (script-assisted)" (where MDY/DMY would change depending on which replace function was used))? Thanks in advance! 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 03:29, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey, I'm glad to see someone is interested in one of my scripts. I will be leaving very soon for a period of two years and so I really don't have time to provide much more support for the tools I've made. I did hack an edit summary into this script at one time. Feel free to make your own copy that has edit summaries, prose/template heuristics, and whatever else you can dream up. Knock yourself out! —Remember the dot ^(talk) 06:25, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Yep, I saw the edit summary you originally had in there. TBH, even though it was sub-optimal, I can't really see how it was a hack, but in any case, I probably will make my own copy (in which case, do you mind if I link it from yours?) to play around with some of that stuff. Lastly, hope you enjoy your two-year wikibreak, and aren't too surprised by how much Wikipedia will undoubtedly have changed by the time you return! =) 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 17:33, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

New version

Don't know when you'll ever see this, but whenever you do, just so you know, I copied this script to my userspace and, with lots of help from User:GregU, pretty much rewrote the whole thing - have a look! My version of the script adds an edit summary and skips dates in URLs and wikilinks, and it offers some slightly more verbose error messages. 「ダイノガイ千？！」^{? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000} 19:53, 23 October 2009 (UTC)