On 02/04/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Move
en.wikipedia.org to
en-dev.wikipedia.org and put
only the
contents of the Wikipedia 0.5 DVD at
en.wikipedia.org.
Betcha we'll suddenly have amazingly efficient procedures for getting
good content across from dev to stable.
This also avoids the issue of appearing to declare the Wikipedia
project a failure by effectively shutting it down and/or deleting
large swathes of it. Since, after all, the impetus for this is nothing
but public relations.
I suggested something similar last month :-)
: This is a perfect project for an "ongoing fork". Every article on
: StablePedia is a static copy of a past Wikipedia article,
: perhaps slightly tidied by SP editors and reviewers; old
: revisions aren't displayed, and if they click 'edit' people
: are pointed back to Wikipedia to work on the ongoing draft.
: When you want to update, you just dump the old one, grab
: a new copy, approve and post on StablePedia - GFDL
: compliance is simple enough, and this means you can
: display your "approval infrastructure" nice and cleanly
: without conflicting with the live project. There's no conceptual
: reason the Foundation couldn't host both, either, and it might
: even be beneficial to do so as a trial balloon.
Doesn't require "stable versions", even, just a clearer segregation of
drafts and published articles. 'Course, how we keep it up to date is a
good question...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk