Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
How would marking a revision as stable cause a fork of an article when the subject comes up in the news? Editing would still be done from the latest revision.
Because all those updates would be hidden behind the stable version. Thus a new article would be created that dealt just with that event so it can be linked from the Main Page and current events. No stable version = development version displayed.
One could argue that if there are current events that lead to drastic changes to an article, * the stable version can be "unset", thus displaying the current version again. Reason: The old stable version is obviuosly outdated :-) * a page could be set to a "current events" or "live" mode individually, similar to the soft protection tag. This could overrule any stable version for the time being. That would need a (minor) software change, though.
Magnus