Magnus, couldn't some feature of the multilingua wiki or namespace manager be a possibility for this? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Multilingual_MediaWiki this allows for innerwikilinks ... so this would allow for "stable printed version" instead of "language" Example: There is one article that is being printed and therefore is stable (let's talk about Munich) Then there is one article that is open for editing and further development So we could have the ordinary article link: http://de.wikipedia.org/wik/EDITABLE:München and the stable version. http://de.wikipedia.org/wik/STABLE:München This would also make sense for a future "new printed edition" because the stable version can than be substituted by the new and corrected and proofread and whatever version of the editable version. The two articles would be linked through "inner-wiki-links" and if there should one day be more printed wikipedias ... well the stable articles would then be linked by ordinary interwiki links (unless we will not have a different way to link articles one day). well I don't know if this is really feasible, but thinking logic: if it is possible with language versions .... it should be possible also with stable and editable versions. If I did not explain well and things are not clear, please let me know. So what are your opinions about that? Ciao, Sabine Magnus Manske wrote: ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it

It would also make sense to me, especially that some articles for the printed version would need to be shortened due to the fact that printed Wikipedia *is* paper. So this namespace could contain a version tagged as "prepared for print" rather than "stable". -- Ausir Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia http://pl.wikipedia.org

Anthere schrieb: Someone with access to Wikipedia servers would have to 1. check the tool is working OK 2. copy a few files 3. create new database table 4. edit one file 2.-4. takes, what, five minutes? 1. could have been done already... Magnus

Magnus Manske wrote: I'd been waiting on Tim's in-progress code to compare. Apparently there's not really anything much of that left (his work mostly transmogrified into the templatelinks temple) so I'm poking at Magnus's code now. It's not ready for use; on a quick lookover there are multiple PHP error messages on basic page views, odd behavior paging through history, it's scattered with test code which doesn't include any of the required permission handling, use of HTML messages may be insecure, and generally it will be hard to maintain due to heavy mixing of UI and backend code. Cache purging doesn't seem to be handled either, so it wouldn't work for its intended purpose for Wikimedia. It'll need some work. I'll see if I can get back to this once the namespace manager is merged, rather than having to fix up its namespace handling a second time afterwards. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)