[Wikipedia-l] proposal of quality controll system for wikipedia

[Ray Saintonge]

Giskart wrote:

> 1. "draft" : a new articel starts whit the draft-status. After 2 
> months and modification by at least 3 different members the articel 
> gets the "articel"-status automatic.  This way you exclude nonsense.
>
> 2. "articel-status": a normal wikipedia articel. Free to edit by 
> everbody.
>
> 3. "stable-status":  For a articel to get the "stable-status" there 
> must be a "vote-for-this-page".  After the first vote for a articel 
> the software create a copy of the articel whit the status 
> "candidate-stable". This gets listed on a special page.  . This stable 
> version can not be edit.
>
> 4. "Expert Approved"-status:   approvel by a group of experts like on 
> Nupedia. Only those members can change the content of the 
> "expert-approved" articel.

That does not have my vote.  There is some sense to the first two 
levels, if only to bring to everybody's attention that an article is 
new.  Beyond that, multiple versions with different edit right seems 
more chaotic than what we have now.  And what is the general public to 
make of this, when they only visit to read about a subject but find 
multiple versions on the subject?

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