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.