[WikiEN-l] Being bold doesn't work anymore, or why our prose is so bad.

[David Gerard]

On 07/09/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Ben Yates wrote:

> > We really, really need stable versions.  There's no point in trying to
> > spruce up the writing style of heavily-trafficked articles until we
> > get them; I gave up a long time ago.

> There's a new MediaWiki version coming up very soon now, will stable
> versions finally be enabled in it?
> Pretty please? I've been telling Wikipedia critics "stable versions
> could potentially improve situation X" for _years_ now and I'm starting
> to feel I've been making a fool of myself.


I believe the code will finally be put on a public test wiki some time soon.


- d.