Brion Vibber wrote:
Well, this feature won't do much of anything about trustworthiness. A review team marking stable revisions, and proper visible disclaimers on unstable development drafts, might.
Yeah, but this sort of functionality is important for getting those versions labelled. As Wikipedia currently stands the only way to refer to specific versions of articles is via full-URL links that the wiki software doesn't understand any differently than external links, so there's no convenient way to mark those stable revisions or have the wiki display appropriately specific disclaimers on them.
Just the fact of having this feature enabled does nothing by itself, of course, it would be silly to claim otherwise. It's the subsequent _use_ of it to label things that will allow us to answer "you can check the article's validation status to get a sense of how trustworthy it is" to our critics' objections.