[WikiEN-l] purpose served by anonymity / unmoderated edits

[Steve Bennett]

On 3/20/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an aside, 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 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.

Yeah, that's good thinking actually. If the proposal is "approval +
live editing", and we already do the live editing, then why bother
replicating that effort? Do your work at Wikipedia and get the instant
gratification *and* contribute towards a high-quality approval-based
encyclopaedia. The question just becomes motivating the approvers -
perhaps a print copy? Some format that doesn't directly compete with
Wikipedia...

Steve