That does seem rather similar. GMTA. Has there been any coalescing behind this type of idea?
K.
--- Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/30/05, Katefan0 katefan0@yahoo.com wrote:
I hesitated to post this message because I don't
want
to take credit for the idea. It was actually an
idea
put forth by Johntex, relayed to me after the
recent
meetup he'd gone to. I'm not sure that he
subscribes
to wikien-l, though, so I thought I'd mention it
FWIW.
I believe he also relayed the idea to Jimbo so perhaps this has already been circulated.
Johntex's idea is essentially a spinoff of an "approved" version. He essentially proposed that Wikipedia create an additional "tab" people could click on to see the last "approved" version. Everybody can still edit the non-approved version, just as normal. And I guess, taking the idea out
to
its logical extreme, at intervals the two versiosn would be compared and any new information meshed
into
the "approved" version. This way everybody can
still
edit and contribute, but anyone concerned about ensuring the version they're looking at has been vetted thoroughly could simply click on the
"approved"
tab.
Kate, it's very similar to this:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Article_marker_feature
And it seems like it's the least disruptive, highest ROI feature that we could try, and the implementation would be simple.
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