[Wikipedia-l] oldid (Re: Do we really need a Sifter project?)

[Karl Eichwalder]

Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Also having a different name makes it clear that those articles are
> different than regular Wikipedia ones (a "stable" Wikipedia article is
> an oxymoron anyway).

I will start citing articles with oldid as follows:

    http://de.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Trier&oldid=218799

> We already have the experts - let's use them in Nupedia, revive the
> Nupedia brand as a stable, experted-approved distribution of Wikipedia
> and that will attract even more experts. All editing will still be on
> Wikipedia so every Nupedian is also a Wikipedian. I see this as
> setting-up great synergies between the two projects.

Sounds good to me (and I don't understand why we must discuss it at
all); nobody can prevent you from using article within a different
context as long as you respect the license.

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