In a message dated 11/30/2005 6:00:01 PM Eastern Standard Time,
brion(a)pobox.com writes:
This'll be a complete waste; no one will ever look at the "frozen" wiki
and
it'll be ignored. (Being 'wiki' or not is not relevant; it'll simply
never
ever
been seen. To be useful, the stable versions need to be right out front and
fully integrated into *.wikipedia.org where people are already looking.)
What we need is a tagging system within the wiki, for a review team to use to
mark certain revisions in certain states.
Articles with verified revisions will show those by default to the public,
with
a notice at the top of the screen about their status and if there are newer
edits available.
Articles without verified revisions will have a notice at the top that they
haven't been reviewed, making clear the 'in-progress' state of the system.
I suggested a validation scheme like this about two years ago on meta.
Danny