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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