At 11:32 AM 10/12/2004 +0100, Charles Matthews wrote:
Daniel P.B.Smith wrote
How about providing this minimal amount of mechanism:
a) A way of marking a particular edit as a "milestone."
b) The ability to mark an edit as a milestone would be suitably restricted to people, probably sysops, who would agree to be governed by discussion, consensus, policy, etc. TBD.
Well, the wiki way is more like: make Milestone a category; allow anyone to add, therefore, but have a convention that no one awards their own edit a milestone, and that anyone adding a Milestone category should comment it in the edit, so it's clear in the history. And one can have Milestone2, etc. This is one form of editable page ratings.
How does one put a category tag on a specific _version_ of an article? I think what's being discussed is sufficiently different from the existing category system that we should call it something different to avoid confusion.
Other than that, since this proposal exactly matches the one I made a day or two back I support it entirely. :)