Module talk:I18n/complex date

Error at Olhadoko erreka

I'm getting "Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Linguistic' not found." Plaba123 (talk) 18:58, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's because @Jarekt: synced this with Commons, but @Pppery: made a breaking change by RfD'ing Module:Linguistic. Not sure how to resolve that... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 21:04, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It amusingly highlights that we have at least one code path that is not executed as otherwise we would have had similar errors already, and I think I saw a few others of similar sort reviewing the module earlier:

			if state.precision > 10 then -- precision > month
				return 'du $date1 au $date2'
			else				-- "DE septebmbre" / "D'octobre"
				return require("Module:Linguistic").of(date1, 'fr') .. " à $date2"
			end

--Izno (talk) 21:39, 21 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Izno: In fact, you've underestimated the amount of never-executed code here by a lot: the entire module is basically copied from commons but useless here, as (taking that code as an example) there is no reason for an English Wikipedia article to format a date in French. {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:20, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think there needs to be a broader discussion over whether this kind of "multilingual" module should be allowed on the English Wikipedia (I'd argue no). {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 00:31, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]