Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007 17:46:25 schrieb draicone@gmail.com:
This, however, is simply an attempt to get the word out to the community -- not the press -- that these systems are on their way.
There are mechanism inside the community to inform each other (like the mentioned wikien-l). I don't want to reach the community via external news but I admit it is a very difficult thing to keep the right balance if you want a certain project to keep its developement pace.
In the past we have not had effective demonstrations of our stable versioning / SSO plans; this demonstration does not fall short in this manner.
By the way have a look at http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow. Stable versions have at least reached the official test wiki (found via http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Projektneuheiten#20._Dezember).
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.
These specific topics are mainly a problem of en.wikipedia, not *.wikipedia. de.wikipedia has other troubles and one of it is the problem that often german language news agencies are saying "they promised $technical-novelties long time ago, but failed to keep that promise up to now". And this is at least partly our fault cause we quite often said curious reporters what we are dreaming about and not so much about novelties that currently happened (for example the Gadget extension from Duesentrieb has quite some impact on editors, not on readers, but it is probably too techie to be of interest for news people ;-).
Arnomane