I am thinking about how to produce a "production" quality version of Wikipedia.
So far, I am thinking that we need:
- some way of freezing or snapshotting a page as a 'release candidate';
- once a page is a release candidate, receiving contributions — issues or endorsements — as to the quality of the page [some sort of issues register, perhaps similar to Bugzilla];
- some controlled way of editing release candidate pages — to address issues, not to add new content;
- a promotion ladder
- alpha/test
- beta/unstable
- production/publication/stable
- a group of moderators who can promote articles — to assess the contributions and determine whether a consensus exists, not to decide themselves;
- a meta-moderation system to track the moderators; and,
- way of having multiple versions of a page without going crazy.
All this is based on the equivalent process for software, but it will need to be modified to meet the specific needs of Wkipedia. m.e. 11:00, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I think all pages are always beta ;) They can always be changed and usually have some way to be fixed. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 15:57, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- They're always pre-alpha, at the moment m.e. 12:05, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC).
- What you're looking for is User:Jimbo Wales/Pushing To 1.0, though it seems to have stagnated a bit. Based on Jimbo's recent talk in London, it seems like he's planning to put together a fairly fully-worked out process to do everything you're talking about, and then opening it up for discussion again. --195.11.216.59 16:05, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Several such ideas have been floated: see m:Article validation, m:Anonymous users should not be allowed to edit articles, m:Referees, m:Paper Wikipedia, m:Sifter project, User:172/History_Committee, probably some others. . . —No-One Jones 17:00, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've added this page to Category:Wikipedia 1.0, for obvious reasons :-) I have a draft action plan of my own too: User:David Gerard/1.0 - David Gerard 01:51, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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