On 12/21/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Articles are continuously edited over time. As
time goes on, ever-newer
versions
will be marked as the stable version which is first shown to the public.
Yes, but only after lengthened amounts of consensus...
If that means "no-one could edit them",
then we already have that model! You
can't change a given revision on Wikipedia; you can only make a new
revision
based on it.
But even worse, today when we freeze an article to show a stable revision,
*nobody* can edit it except an elite cabal of sysops. Is that "open"? Is
that
"free"?
I haven't yet heard of anyone freezing an article to create a stable
version. The concept of a stable version doesn't yet exist.
If you read Brion's message carefully, you will realize that the concept
of stable versions he refers to in the present system are commonly
called "protected pages". I trust you have heard of those.
--Michael Snow