Magnus Manske wrote:
There is a radical alternative, which I have begun to code a few weeks ago. It alters a MediaWiki installation to "import-only", replacing editing with an import function for an article version from wikipedia.
This'll be a complete waste; no one will ever look at the "frozen" wiki and it'll be ignored. (Being 'wiki' or not is not relevant; it'll simply never ever been seen. To be useful, the stable versions need to be right out front and fully integrated into *.wikipedia.org where people are already looking.)
What we need is a tagging system within the wiki, for a review team to use to mark certain revisions in certain states.
Articles with verified revisions will show those by default to the public, with a notice at the top of the screen about their status and if there are newer edits available.
Articles without verified revisions will have a notice at the top that they haven't been reviewed, making clear the 'in-progress' state of the system.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)