[WikiEN-l] stable versions

[Armed Blowfish]

On 08/09/2007, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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?

It's hard to get the MediaWiki developers to commit much
of anything, it seems to me.  Citizendium might be
interested, perhaps you could talk them into hosting a
MediaWiki fork with your modification.