[WikiEN-l] Main Page Featured Article

[Michael Noda]

On 12/19/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something that occurred to me a bit ago...  We could both freeze and
> not-freeze the featured article, with a bit of effort.  We could
> create a new name heirarchy (wiki/Featured Article/article-name) and
> drop a subst'ed version of the page, protected, down into that
> subpage, with a link to the "live" wiki article there if people want
> to see how it may have improved over the course of the day.  If
> there's bandwidth available, someone could repeat the process (create
> an updated frozen subst version from the live wiki page) every hour or
> two during the TFA run, so it doesn't even have to be fixed as of the
> beginning of the day.
>
> This doesn't take any new technology, just a few subpages and a bit of
> procedure...

I'm fairly sure that you've just described exactly what is to be
implemented when Stable Versions go online, which we have been told
since Wikimania is Real Soon Now.