Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
I didn't realise that the Sifter project had written code yet. Where can we find this? Is there (crossing fingers) documentation?
The magnificent and magnanimous Magnus Manske spoke thusly:
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/sifter-l/2002-November/000034.html
Yes, this kinda works. No, I haven't worked on it for some time, and there's no documentation.
I thought I could make this work with Yet Another Software Rewrite, but after we installed the TeX thingy, I surrender ;-)
I'd rather add extended user management to the current wikipedia software (emphasis on the software, not the wikipedia; the latter will remain unchanged by this!) to a similar mode like the one I mentioned in that old mail.
Short rules for the sifter: * No editing of articles for anyone, including sysops! * Articles are created by importing them from wikipedia (thus no fork) * Only logged-in users with "editor" state can import articles * You'll have to apply for "editor" state by the Powers To Be with (scientific) reference or similar (e.g. "I've been a good guy on wikipedia";-)
That's why I asked for a sifter test site the other day - testing all this would block the test.wikipedia.org site.
Magnus