[WikiEN-l] WTF Have I Missed?

[David Gerard]

On 27/08/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:

> http://news.com.com/Can+German+engineering+fix+Wikipedia/2100-1038_3-6108495.html
> A related source.... not the BBC.
> "We want to let anybody edit," Wales said, "but we don't want to show
> vandalized versions."


Yeah. When did Jimbo first ask for this, early 2005? People pretty
much concurred it was a fantastic idea (logged-in editors get the live
version, anon readers get the last-non-vandal-edit version), but it
was considered technically rather painful indeed in the then-current
structure of Mediawiki.

If it looks workable now, that's fantastic, and should help make it a
better no. 17 website in the world *and* a good perpetual working
draft.


- d.