[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Permalink? was RE: [WikiEN-l] Brilliant prose rename brainstorm

[Erik Moeller]

Cunc-
> That reminds me...can we add a little <permanent URL for this version>
> at the bottom of the article pages?

Yeah, I wanted to add this but it's a bit tricky with the current CUR/OLD  
setup so I might hold off until Brion reorganizes the DB, if he does. One  
thing that I also think might be useful for the certification process is  
to have some kind of flag that can be assigned to certain revisions to  
mark them as stable, only by sysops (I probably shouldn't say this when  
responding to Cunc ;).

Then you could have a special syntax that would always refer to the  
flagged revision, like this: [[Caesar+]], pointing to the flagged revision  
of [[Caesar]], or the top one if there is none. These would be assigned  
after the certification process in community consensus, of course.

Advantage: Makes refreshing articles in BP much easier and allows pointing  
to stable versions in any other context.

Regards,

Erik