On Dec 21, 2007 2:40 AM, Daniel Arnold <arnomane(a)gmx.de> wrote:
I personally don't like press coverage on things
that are not ready yet and
months away from any practical impact to daily Wikipedia life. We have had
*too* many news articles on "soon-to-come" stable versions/Single
Login/whatever...
If the press wish to misrepresent and misreport on the activities of
the WMF projects, there is little we can do about it. This, however,
is simply an attempt to get the word out to the community -- not the
press -- that these systems are on their way.
In the past we have not had effective demonstrations of our stable
versioning / SSO plans; this demonstration does not fall short in this
manner. 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.