Author: psychonaut

Description:
My only experience with the MediaWiki software is as a Wikipedia author, so
forgive me if this bug is misfiled.

Anyway, Wikipedia has some feature whereby dates of the form [[20 July]] or
[[July 20]] are automatically rendered according to the reader's preferred
settings. However, this feature does not work for date ranges, so far as I can
tell. In particular, it would be nice if the following formats could be
accounted for:

[[20 July|20]]–[[22 July]]
[[July 20]]–[[July 22|22]]

At the moment, these are rendered as follows in American English:

20–July 22 (incorrect)
July 20–22 (correct)

and as follows in International English:

20–22 July (correct)
20 July–22 (incorrect)

Both ought to be rendered the "correct" way depending on the user's settings.

Note that there are many more possible connectives other than –
("through", "to", "-", etc.), it may be necessary to introduce an entirely new
syntax for date ranges, or simply stipulate that the relatively neutral –
be used in all cases.

Version: 1.17.x
Severity: normal