Daniel Mayer wrote:
Or we can simply revisit the idea of Beta/Stable; whereby some type of
process validates an article. Having another level of validation through
Nupedia would also be a good thing. In that way Nupedia would be a
distribution of Wikipedia in the same way as Red Hat is a distribution of
Linus' Linux and the GNU tools.
What do you think of this:
You give to the articels a classification. You can hide or exclude
articels whit a specific classification in your preferences.
1. "draft" : a new articel starts whit the draft-status. After 2 months
and modification by at least 3 different members the articel gets the
"articel"-status automatic. This way you exclude nonsense.
2. "articel-status": a normal wikipedia articel. Free to edit by everbody.
3. "stable-status": For a articel to get the "stable-status" there
must
be a "vote-for-this-page". After the first vote for a articel the
software create a copy of the articel whit the status
"candidate-stable". This gets listed on a special page. There the
"candidate-stable" articel must get a certain amount of votes in a
certain time. ( 8 votes / 4 weeks ?) If it gets sufficient votes the
status of that copy changes from "candidate-stable" to "stable". This
stable version can not be edit. There are now 2 versions of a articel:
a "stable"-status articel (static) and the articel whit the
"articel-status" that you can edit. To change somting on the "stable"
articel a new round of votes is nesseary.
4. "Expert Approved"-status: to go from "articel-status" to
"stable-status" you only need the votes of anybody. For a articel to get
the "Expert approved-status" the articel must be given approvel by a
group of experts like on Nupedia. Only those mebers can change the
content of the "expert-approved" articel. But besides the
"expert-approved" articel ypu have still (and always will) the
"articel-status" version free for everbody to edit. And possebly a
"stable" version.
At the end you have almost no articels that are compleet nonsens
("draft-status")
From articels whit the "stable-status" you now is has been read by
different people and is probably right.
From the articels whit the "Expert-approved" you now it has been under
serious attension of people that know that subject very good.
I think this way you have the best of Wikipedia and Nupedia together.
Every articel is still free to modify but you have also a layer of more
static articels that are more trustworthy.
Giskart
"draft": a new articel gets the status of draft