[WikiEN-l] stable versions

[Anthony]

On 9/8/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> A very important aspect that needs to be in stable versions, IMO, is the
> ability to ignore the system completely if one wants to. The first thing
> I plan to do when the feature is enabled is to set my preferences so
> that I always see the most recent version, not just the most recent
> stable version; I want to work at the raw coal face of Wikipedia, for me
> stable versions is just a fence around the worksite to get people to
> stop "helpfully" filling in the hole I'm trying to dig.
>
Just curious.  If I made a patch that allowed any user with
"markstable" (by default sysops) to mark a particular version of an
article as "stable", and then showed that version to users who weren't
logged in, and added $wgStableVersions to turn it on and off, would it
be accepted?