On Dec 21, 2007 2:40 AM, Daniel Arnold arnomane@gmx.de wrote:
I personally don't like press coverage on things that are not ready yet and months away from any practical impact to daily Wikipedia life. We have had *too* many news articles on "soon-to-come" stable versions/Single Login/whatever...
If the press wish to misrepresent and misreport on the activities of the WMF projects, there is little we can do about it. This, however, is simply an attempt to get the word out to the community -- not the press -- that these systems are on their way.
In the past we have not had effective demonstrations of our stable versioning / SSO plans; this demonstration does not fall short in this manner. At any rate, news of the trust system should go some way to restoring general public faith in Wikipedia after the thoroughly exaggerated controversy over secret mailing lists, conspiracies and Durova.