On 17/01/07, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/17/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think the Stable Version feature that is being worked on is a better
solution, though. It's more flexible, but does pretty much the same job.
Even if we only applied stable versions to a select few articles (say, those that seem to get sprotected all the time, because vandals think they're funny, or anything that may have or frequently has BLP concerns), it would probably go a long way toward avoiding this sort of situation, and the resulting press.
Note by the way that stable versions doesn't exist yet. If this 'showing stuff under 24 hours old' is in fact technically not horrible, run it past wikitech-l or #wikimedia-tech and see what the devs think of the idea. And if it exists first, then our readers (who now vastly outnumber our editors) will have another thing that makes Wikpedia more useful to them.
- d.