On 3/9/07, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
I recall bringing the issue up on this mailing list
(or possibly
wikipedia-l?) a few months ago, and not only was consensus strongly in
favor, but there wasn't a *single* post opposed to it. There were just
disagreements over the best way to do it.
Depends what issue you're talking about. I strongly prefer a time-lag
model to a stable version model. If you're conflating the two, yes I'm
in favour of doing *something*. If you're separating them, I'm against
the stable version model.
The stable version model is along the lines of certain users
designating a particular revision as being "stable" and that being the
one displayed to the outside world, permanently, until another "stable
version" is chosen. It seems to have such obvious drawbacks:
- choosing users to do the designation
- stable versions being horribly out of date
- killing the wiki model completely (now almost no one can edit and
get the instant feedback)
Steve