On 02/04/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

Move en.wikipedia.org to en-dev.wikipedia.org and put only the contents of the Wikipedia 0.5 DVD at en.wikipedia.org.

Betcha we'll suddenly have amazingly efficient procedures for getting good content across from dev to stable.

This also avoids the issue of appearing to declare the Wikipedia project a failure by effectively shutting it down and/or deleting large swathes of it. Since, after all, the impetus for this is nothing but public relations.

I suggested something similar last month :-)

: This is a perfect project for an "ongoing fork". Every article on : StablePedia is a static copy of a past Wikipedia article, : perhaps slightly tidied by SP editors and reviewers; old : revisions aren't displayed, and if they click 'edit' people : are pointed back to Wikipedia to work on the ongoing draft. : When you want to update, you just dump the old one, grab : a new copy, approve and post on StablePedia - GFDL : compliance is simple enough, and this means you can : display your "approval infrastructure" nice and cleanly : without conflicting with the live project. There's no conceptual : reason the Foundation couldn't host both, either, and it might : even be beneficial to do so as a trial balloon.

Doesn't require "stable versions", even, just a clearer segregation of drafts and published articles. 'Course, how we keep it up to date is a good question...