2007/9/24, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111(a)hotmail.com>om>:
On en.wikibooks, a major concern is the ability to
"freeze" a book during a semester so that students and teachers have a
consistent book version to work from. That said, we would like to have a
"stable" version of the book that appears to student readers while a
"development" version can continue to be worked on in the background. I guess
what I'm most interested in is:
1) The ability to show a flagged version of some pages to all readers by default, but
allow development to continue on the "current revision" of the page.
2) The ability to show the current development version of pages that dont need to be
frozen, by default.
Now, there are ways to do this kind of thing using clever page protections now, but I
think it would be generally preferrable to have the flaggedrevs extension streamline this
process for us. Is this kind of thing going to be feasible?
No, not at the moment, but it will be developed, except for one
problem: this is a question of global setting. So, if en.wikibooks
doesn't want this flexibility, but simply always to show a sighted
version, then a per-page-view is not possible.
I'm sure that soon, someone will provide tools to extract quality
versions from a wiki. Then you could put the frozen version on a
different website for example, which seems to me to be actually the
easiest solution to your problem anyhow (and those of many other
people).
Best wishes,
Philipp