Magnus Manske wrote:
Directmedia, the company who brought us the German Wikipedia on CD and DVD, has expanded to print publishing, as can already be seen in form of "WikiPress", a topic-specific series of books.
They just announced that they will publish the German Wikipedia *in full print*, 100 volumes with 800 pages each, starting with the letter A in October 2006, to end with Z in 2010.
For this, they hired a few people. The plan is for these "editors" to go over *the stable version* of each article.
Some of you might have notices a slight problem with this - there is no stable version feature in Wikipedia. As usual, we have discussed a lot about the stable version (which is good), and AFAIK most people agreed that it won't do much harm, depending which version is presented (I'd consider that consensus, provided we still show the current version first), and then, in good tradition, did - nothing.
As I said time and again, I don't care if it's my stable version extension, or Tim Starling's, or one donated by a merciful god, but we should *use* one, on every wikipedia that wants it. And /soon/. Like now. Or next week. There's nothing left to discuss, except repeating old arguments over again.
Magnus
And what actually needs to be done for any version of the tool to go live Magnus ?
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