[Process] request for comments: date separators on wiki

[Kaitlin Duck Sherwood]

Folks --

I'm interested in feedback on whether dates in Wiki page names should
have dashes or not:
MeetingNotes20031003
or
MeetingNotes2003-10-03

I feel strongly that we should have a consistent naming format so that
people can search easily for all the pages in a given date range.

I feel strongly that the dates should be year first, then month, then
date -- and that month and date should be two digits -- so that they
will sort nicely in order.

There are advantages and disadvantages to both the "20031003" and the
"2003-10-03" format. To make the one with dashes a Wiki link, you must
surround it with brackets. The one without dashes links nicely, but is
hard to read.

The dashes also mess up scripts of various kinds, e.g.
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/ChandlerWikiTree
Yes, yes, we can always decide that we need to change the scripts to
cope with dashes, but that would mean we would always need to be aware
in the future of the difficulty of dashes.

So: which pain would you rather put up with: hard to read, or hard to
make links?

Please post your feedback to
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Main/WikiDateFormat

(This probably isn't an important enough issue to clutter up the lists
further...)