On 13 Dec 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
There will also always be a great many people who will not trust anything on a wiki.
And we should confirm this irrational fear by pointing them to a separate website? This would be very unfair. We should give people an opportunity to learn. Wikipedia's success is based on overcoming these kinds of fears.
I think you're missing an important point, that if we don't create/distribute a stable version it will only be a matter of time before someone else does. And that someone else might not care about encouraging people to go to wikipedia.
Imran