On 12/28/07, Steve Summit scs@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