request for comments: date separators on wiki

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...)

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