[Wikipedia-l] Re: German wikipedia to be printed - where's the stable version feature?

[Anthere]

Magnus Manske wrote:
> Directmedia, the company who brought us the German Wikipedia on CD and
> DVD, has expanded to print publishing, as can already be seen in form of
> "WikiPress", a topic-specific series of books.
> 
> They just announced that they will publish the German Wikipedia *in full
> print*, 100 volumes with 800 pages each, starting with the letter A in
> October 2006, to end with Z in 2010.
> 
> For this, they hired a few people. The plan is for these "editors" to go
> over *the stable version* of each article.
> 
> Some of you might have notices a slight problem with this - there is no
> stable version feature in Wikipedia. As usual, we have discussed a lot
> about the stable version (which is good), and AFAIK most people agreed
> that it won't do much harm, depending which version is presented (I'd
> consider that consensus, provided we still show the current version
> first), and then, in good tradition, did - nothing.
> 
> As I said time and again, I don't care if it's my stable version
> extension, or Tim Starling's, or one donated by a merciful god, but we
> should *use* one, on every wikipedia that wants it. And /soon/. Like
> now. Or next week. There's nothing left to discuss, except repeating old
> arguments over again.
> 
> Magnus

And what actually needs to be done for any version of the tool to go 
live Magnus ?

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