User blog:Evilquoll/Language policy for this wiki

See also User_blog:Brian_McClure/British_English.

Am I correct in believing that the language used on this wiki should be American English, in line with Wikipedia policy which states that the language of region-specific pages should favo u r the regional dialect? This is an American wiki, so...

On the other hand, the {[w:c:fastmail|Fastmail]] wiki is about an Australian email service, so the appropriate dialect there is Australian English, which is almost the same as British English. I've recently edited the welcome template accordingly.

One exception to this, which I feel quite strongly about, is that dates on the Web must never be expressed in American or European format, as these are too easily confused with each other; e.g. most of the world would write today's date as "1/7/2012", but Americans would misread that as the 7th of January. The only date format suitable for use on the World Wide Web is International, e.g. 2012-07-01.