On 08/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/8/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
A very important aspect that needs to be in stable versions, IMO, is the ability to ignore the system completely if one wants to. The first thing I plan to do when the feature is enabled is to set my preferences so that I always see the most recent version, not just the most recent stable version; I want to work at the raw coal face of Wikipedia, for me stable versions is just a fence around the worksite to get people to stop "helpfully" filling in the hole I'm trying to dig.
Just curious. If I made a patch that allowed any user with "markstable" (by default sysops) to mark a particular version of an article as "stable", and then showed that version to users who weren't logged in, and added $wgStableVersions to turn it on and off, would it be accepted?
It's hard to get the MediaWiki developers to commit much of anything, it seems to me. Citizendium might be interested, perhaps you could talk them into hosting a MediaWiki fork with your modification.