Daniel-
Why not call it [[Wikipedia:Candidates for inclusion in Nupedia]]?
Please don't. Nupedia is dead as far as I am concerned, and the only thing it lacks is a proper burial. Maybe we should create a page for it as soon as the Wiki memorial site is up.
Doing the certification within Wikipedia is the Right Thing: - We want everyone who knows something to contribute immediately if at all possible. An external website is an additional barrier to entry for doing so. It's the bold "Edit this page" link that gets people into the wiki process in the first place. -> Even if some links are duplicated on the "stable" version, you would effectively need a different user interface. When reading stable articles on Wikipedia itself, on the other hand, people transparently learn to use the UI, and can turn from reader to editor in seconds. - It is terrible marketing to promote one brand at the expense of another. By moving stable content to "that other site", we weaken the trust people have in Wikipedia, which will always be much larger and more comprehensive. - In any case, it complicates all marketing operations significantly. It's difficult enough to explain what a wiki is. The probable result would be that we wouldn't even bother anymore to explain it and just point people to the stable version. That in turn would reduce the influx of contributors. - By building a separate site with separate rules, we risk to alienate Wikipedians who feel they do not belong to that project. A certification process, in order to work properly, needs to be accepted and internalized by the community. - Community building is essential to the success of our project. The last thing we need are more mailing lists, more points of entry, more discussion pages. The worst case scenario is that separate communities grow without talking much to one another.
The key argument, however, is that it doesn't give us a single advantage we don't get with an integrated process. Things should never be made more complex unless they have to.
Regards,
Erik