The point is not to have a permanent two level solution, it's to give us a more orderly switch, we can get rid of the crap in the public article and have a sandbox for a couple days while anyone who can spot some trivia thats information and not real trivia can make an attempt to save it before we completely dump it.
On 9/8/07, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
That's not the best solution at all. The best solution is to remove the real trivia entirely, and rewrite the cultural references in an encyclopedic way. That takes work, of course, but then writing an encyclopedia takes work; deleting large amounts from many articles based on superficial inspection without attempting to improve content is much easier.
As a way to resolve such differences in basic outlook, a two-level solution would work, though l think it would produce enough other problems to be unworkable. Those doubting can take a look a the difficulties Citizendium is having with that approach, and the very slow progress they are consequently making.
On 9/8/07, Brock Weller brock.weller@gmail.com wrote:
That sounds like a fine solution. Im not a major fan of stable versions but this possibility has me intrigued enough to want to try it.
On 9/8/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Brock Weller wrote:
I said usable, not complete. But regardless. Its not hard to recover if someone can fit it in, and if they cant, them it stays hidden like it should. There's no downside to wiping these sections.
If it's hidden in the article history, future editors are a lot less likely to find it and insert it more smoothly into the text. And the information becomes unavailable to casual readers in the meantime. That is a _major_ downside.
Dovetailing in with another thread, this dispute is something that "stable versions" could work well to resolve. The trivialess-but-nice-looking version can be marked as the "good" one and the trivia-containing version can be marked as the "work in progress" one. Everyone becomes happy.
-- -Brock
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