On Monday 10 September 2007 10:42:49 John Erling Blad wrote:
What about using a smaller language at Wikipedia as a
test case? Instead
of having a major language go down because of scalability problems such
a problem can be detected up front. I think it could be possible to have
a go at no.wp for such a test.
Ie., set up a smaller language for a full scale test after the beta test
and before de.wp and en.wp.
Well. There is a small problem called psychology. de.wp has advocated the
stable version idea for a long time and many design principles were brought
up there first. And I am aware of at least 2 earlier attempts of
de.wikipedians (one by DaB., the toolserver admin) coding such an extension
but they didn't succed because the design principles back then weren't that
good as it is now. These failed attempts did help people coming to the right
ideas. So the de.wikipedians want to be among the first otherwise they'd
be "a bit" upset. ;-)
However it would be certainly very good to go live with two different wikis.
no.wikipedia is probably quite different from de.wikipedia at least in size
(community and content). So we'd know wether and how certain things work out
in different environments.
So:
a) Is there a strong desire in no.wp for this feature?
b) Can you conduct a discussion about that in no.wp? (eg. translating
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gesichtete_Versionen and
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geprüfte_Versionen so that people in
no.wp get an idea what the thing is about at all (and what not ;-).
Arnomane