[WikiEN-l] Page freezing on "good" articles

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 10/27/05, steven l. rubenstein <rubenste at ohiou.edu> wrote:

> The only thing I can imagine is this: when a page has reached this state
> it
> is usually through the hard work of a few editors (and I am not trying to
> deny the contributions of countless other people). I suggest those editors
> save that version of the article as sub-pages to their user pages. If
> there is ever major vandalism of the article, or if it seriously degrades
> over a long period of time, those editors have a point of reference
> (without having to go back through the edit history) of when they thought
> of it as "done."


Why not just save the link?

It might even make sense to create a single page for everyone's links. And
then, after a few months or whatever, we can get a diff between the "perfect
article that can't be improved" and the current one. Maybe we'll find it
wasn't so perfect after all. Or maybe we'll find it has degraded over time
and can revert back.

All of this without page protection and without coding any new features.
Freezing articles doesn't make much sense when the history is always there
and it's easy to link to any historical version of a page. And now you can
even make a permanent link to the *current* version of a page.