What I'm thinking is that a
beta.en.wikipedia.org
instance wouldn't be
so bad, if it had the same data on the back end.
Along a similar vein, would it help to have a public test wiki that always ran the
absolute bleeding edge? (As opposed to
test.wikipedia.org which runs an NFS checkout before the sync, and as such usually differs
little from most of the Wikipedia sites).
Example hostname:
http://dogfood.wikipedia.org/ . That way keen people could try new stuff
out earlier, and maybe we might get some
feedback sooner, before changes impact the whole userbase, thus possibly resulting in
greater harmony?
All the best,
Nick.