Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 17:46:25 schrieb draicone(a)gmail.com:
This, however, is simply an attempt to get the word
out to the community --
not the press -- that these systems are on their way.
There are mechanism inside the community to inform each other (like the
mentioned wikien-l). I don't want to reach the community via external news
but I admit it is a very difficult thing to keep the right balance if you
want a certain project to keep its developement pace.
In the past we have not had effective demonstrations
of our stable
versioning / SSO plans; this demonstration does not fall short in this
manner.
By the way have a look at
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow. Stable versions
have at least reached the official test wiki (found via
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projektneuheiten#20._Dezember).
At any rate, news of the trust system should go some
way to
restoring general public faith in Wikipedia after the thoroughly
exaggerated controversy over secret mailing lists, conspiracies and
Durova.
These specific topics are mainly a problem of en.wikipedia, not *.wikipedia.
de.wikipedia has other troubles and one of it is the problem that often
german language news agencies are saying "they promised $technical-novelties
long time ago, but failed to keep that promise up to now". And this is at
least partly our fault cause we quite often said curious reporters what we
are dreaming about and not so much about novelties that currently happened
(for example the Gadget extension from Duesentrieb has quite some impact on
editors, not on readers, but it is probably too techie to be of interest for
news people ;-).
Arnomane