Add support for translated dates/times
Closed, ResolvedPublic
Actions

Assigned To

Authored By

	valhallasw
	Jun 11 2015, 8:36 PM

Description

The Revertbot-revert message currently uses an ISO timestamp, and using a translated string would be nicer.

The easiest way to do this is to hook into PyICU (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyICU), but that depends on ICU which is nontrivial to install.

Details

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[IMPR] Add support for translated dates/times	pywikibot/core	master	+13 -1

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T104787: Rewrite/Update/Validate pagegenerators YearPageGenerator and DayPageGenerator using Wikidata

Event Timeline

valhallasw created this task.Jun 11 2015, 8:36 PM

valhallasw raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

valhallasw updated the task description. (Show Details)

valhallasw added subscribers: valhallasw, • Purodha.

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJun 11 2015, 8:36 PM

valhallasw added a project: Pywikibot.Jun 11 2015, 8:37 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: pywikibot-bugs-list. · View Herald TranscriptJun 11 2015, 8:37 PM

We have a humongous date.py library which can do this.

>>> s = pywikibot.Site('fa', 'wikipedia')
>>> fd = pywikibot.date.FormatDate(s)
>>> fd(10, 3)
u'3 \u0627\u06a9\u062a\u0628\u0631'
>>> pywikibot.date.formatYear('fa', 2013)
u'\u06f2\u06f0\u06f1\u06f3 (\u0645\u06cc\u0644\u0627\u062f\u06cc)'

I am not sure how to stitch the year and month+day together correctly for a locale, but I am sure the voodoo is in that library somewhere .. ;-)

We could also use the site messages for month names, which is the approach that textlib.TimeStripper uses, and ensures good localisation. I wonder if there are other site messages which describe the format of a date used on the wiki.

jayvdb mentioned this in T104787: Rewrite/Update/Validate pagegenerators YearPageGenerator and DayPageGenerator using Wikidata.Jul 5 2015, 6:06 AM

Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.May 9 2016, 3:19 PM

Change 738510 had a related patch set uploaded (by Xqt; author: Xqt):

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR] Add support for translated dates/times

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/738510

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 13 2021, 1:10 PM

Xqt triaged this task as Low priority.Nov 13 2021, 1:11 PM

Xqt closed this task as Resolved.Nov 20 2021, 10:28 AM

Xqt claimed this task.

Change 738510 merged by jenkins-bot:

[pywikibot/core@master] [IMPR] Add support for translated dates/times

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/738510