On 9/9/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
On 09/09/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/8/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
I wouldn't expect the MediaWiki developers to commit anything without putting you through consensus-building hell first. Forking is probably much easier.
I would think the consensus-building would only be required to turn *on* the feature for a particular wiki, not to accept it into the codebase.
Nym: http://lunkwill.org/cv/nym.pdf http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Oct-2005/msg00229.html http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3729 http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2005/msg00003.html http://lunkwill.org/src/nym/javascript/jsnymclient.html http://lunkwill.org/src/nym/
Blocking sets of IPs: http://www.imperialviolet.org/binary/mediawiki-1.4.4-tor-block.patch http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/May-2005/msg00128.html http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Sep-2005/msg00312.html
I don't really see the usefulness of the nym patches, but mass-blocking sets of IPs for a short period of time seems like a clearly useful patch to me. However, from the second message, that patch "is almost but not completely finished". It would also probably be better implemented as an extension. If you can make it into an extension then it really doesn't matter if the devs accept.
Back to the topic of stable versions, I've found some more pages, but still have no idea what's official, what's obsolete, what's rejected, etc.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Article_validation_feature http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reviewed_article_version http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Article_validation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Article_endorsement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-07-10/More_st... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2006-08-07/Wikiman... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stable_versions_now (rejected) http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Review