Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu>
wrote:
I didn't realise that the Sifter project had
written code yet.
Where can we find this? Is there (crossing fingers) documentation?
The magnificent and magnanimous Magnus Manske spoke thusly:
http://www.nupedia.com/pipermail/sifter-l/2002-November/000034.html
Yes, this kinda works. No, I haven't worked on it for some time, and
there's no documentation.
I thought I could make this work with Yet Another Software Rewrite, but
after we installed the TeX thingy, I surrender ;-)
I'd rather add extended user management to the current wikipedia
software (emphasis on the software, not the wikipedia; the latter will
remain unchanged by this!) to a similar mode like the one I mentioned in
that old mail.
Short rules for the sifter:
* No editing of articles for anyone, including sysops!
* Articles are created by importing them from wikipedia (thus no fork)
* Only logged-in users with "editor" state can import articles
* You'll have to apply for "editor" state by the Powers To Be with
(scientific) reference or similar (e.g. "I've been a good guy on
wikipedia";-)
That's why I asked for a sifter test site the other day - testing all
this would block the
test.wikipedia.org site.
Magnus