On 12/28/07, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
The example I had in mind was a "rationale"
page, which could
be an edited and distilled-down permanent essay, describing
why a complex or contentious article is written the way it is,
written for and read by an article's editors, not its readers.
(But that's just another example; what I'm interested in here
is the general principle.)
IMHO it would be pretty cool if Wikipedia did this on a per article
basis. That is, if for each article, one (admins, probably) could
create arbitrary additional pages to address the needs of that
article. Likely candidates would be:
- Draft for rewrite
- Removed text
- References
- Meta information (featured article tags, peer reviews etc etc)
The more of this noise that's removed from the discussion pages, the
more effective the discussion pages would be.
If it's easy to implement this behaviour, it might be seriously worth
considering for Wikipedia.
Steve