Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Wikidata/Correct date format on Wikidata

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Correct date format on Wikidata

Problem: Different languages have different grammar rules to display dates. This works well for example on Wikipedia, but doesn't work on Wikidata. Using English for the surface data format is 18 November 2017, while using for example Hungarian language it shows 18. November 2017. The correct form would be in this example 2017. november 18.. There are other language examples in the linked phabricator ticket. It looks an easy problem, but there is no progress in the last years.

Who would benefit: Users of Wikidata

Proposed solution: Implement the language rules of date format from the existing code (of MediaWiki?)

More comments:

Phabricator tickets: T63958, T95553

Proposer: Samat (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion

I think we could (should) merge this request with others dealing with dates/times on Wikidata:

Merging these requests about similar topics would gain more attention and higher number of votes, while the tasks itself looks rather small issues for me. Samat (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This issue and those issues are unrelated besides that they deal with the time data type (and P2047 deals with the number with units data type!). Merging them would create the kind of task that is specifically requested not to be added on the main page. --Izno (talk) 03:57, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I've been following this Phab thread for some time too and would support this proposal. I agree with Izno that merging may not be helpful as a wishlist entry because they're different technical issues that have separate solutions. Der yck C. 00:12, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Disclaimer: I am the proposer. Samat (talk) 18:15, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Obviously there should be proper language support on the multilangual site Wikidata. Snaevar (talk) 18:26, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support absolutely, the current format looks terrible. Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:07, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ederporto (talk) 00:33, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support NMaia (talk) 00:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jc86035 (talk) 01:20, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tgr (talk) 06:49, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support HHill (talk) 11:51, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:29, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Matěj Suchánek (talk) 14:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Stryn (talk) 16:03, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support TMg 16:37, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support David1010 (talk) 17:19, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 18:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mahir256 (talk) 19:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laboramus (talk) 21:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 23:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 03:35, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support PKM (talk) 05:46, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 05:46, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support AlessioMela (talk) 10:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 12:59, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayack (talk) 13:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support The situation for centuries is even much worse, not only ugly but misleading and even outrightly wrong causing errors in the database. --Marsupium (talk) 22:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ZellmerLP (talk) 22:37, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support — putnik 01:09, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support--L736E ^{tell me} 08:34, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support VIGNERON * ^discut. 09:31, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nizil Shah (talk) 18:29, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trizek ^{from FR} 11:30, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support --OrsolyaVirág (talk) 17:29, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Haytham^Abulela 18:27, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support And also for centuries! Theklan (talk) 18:59, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wikizoli (talk) 20:51, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 21:27, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 16:19, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Termininja (talk) 18:10, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pallerti^{Rabbit Hole} 18:46, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support JAn Dudík (talk) 12:24, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support --Szilas (talk) 19:43, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Ruslik (talk) 13:51, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Balint36 ^{🚌 bus stop} 10:12, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support X:: black ::X (talk) 14:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Szalax (talk) 16:20, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]