On 3/20/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
As an aside, this is a perfect project for an "ongoing fork". Every article on StablePedia is a static copy of a past Wikipedia article, perhaps slightly tidied by SP editors and reviewers; old revisions aren't displayed, and people are pointed back to Wikipedia to work on the ongoing draft. When you want to update, you just dump the old one, grab a new copy, approve and post on StablePedia - GFDL compliance is simple enough, and this means you can display your "approval infrastructure" nice and cleanly without conflicting with the live project. There's no conceptual reason the Foundation couldn't host both, either, and it might even be beneficial to do so as a trial balloon.
Yeah, that's good thinking actually. If the proposal is "approval + live editing", and we already do the live editing, then why bother replicating that effort? Do your work at Wikipedia and get the instant gratification *and* contribute towards a high-quality approval-based encyclopaedia. The question just becomes motivating the approvers - perhaps a print copy? Some format that doesn't directly compete with Wikipedia...
Steve