On Feb 26, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Delirium wrote:
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, because we're looking for concise articles, not full encyclopedia articles. Simply marking [[World War II]] as "ready for print" doesn't do anything towards getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of World War II.
Agreed. Simply marking an article as "ready for print" would effectively freeze it from further editing. The living Wikipedia article needs to be continually editable so that the version that is on the 2nd printed edition can show further improvements.
Looking towards the future, would it be feasible to define a markup for exporting print versions of articles? I'm thinking "Hide this section", "Replace this with that", and similar. The export system would also remove external links and possibly do other automate-able tasks. Then we can maintain a single edit history, freeze good versions of articles, and be able to incorporate good changes into the frozen copy.
Peter
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