[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Dealing with juvenile vandalism

[Michael Snow]

Jeff Raymond wrote:

> Aude wrote:
>
>> Though, I get the sense that maybe it's not so much a technical issue of
>> implementing it but some other issues holding it up?  I thought the
>> stable/delay thing was going to be tried on dewiki and then if it worked
>> then brought over here.  Has it even been tried yet on dewiki? or what?
>
> There was a pretty strong consensus against stable versions when it 
> was first pushed last fall.  I'm not sure if that consensus still 
> exists (I'm strongly opposed to the concept myself), but it's worth 
> noting.

I think you're talking about different things. Stable versions as a 
software feature (or perhaps better said, non-vandalized and reviewed 
versions) is what the German Wikipedia intends to test once the feature 
is actually programmed. However, finding someone who can do the 
programming has been a challenge and the current developer crew is 
already taxed just with keeping the site running.

Stable versions simply based on using templates and so forth, as 
described at [[Wikipedia:Stable versions]], was effectively rejected. 
But a significant part of the objection to it was that this should be 
handled by the software instead. As to the software feature, the debate 
is only about the details of implementation at this point.

--Michael Snow