[WikiEN-l] Re: Print edition

Fri Feb 27 02:26:25 UTC 2004

Delirium wrote:

> Poor, Edmund W wrote:
>
>> It's too hard to keep a running list with more than 100 links.
>>
>> How about an invisible marker like {ready for print} near the top of the
>> article text?   
>
> I think we need to split out versions somewhere else, because we're 
> looking for concise articles, not full encyclopedia articles.  Simply 
> marking [[World War II]] as "ready for print" doesn't do anything 
> towards getting us a good one-to-two-paragraph summary of World War II.

Agreed.  Simply marking an article as "ready for print" would 
effectively freeze it from further editing.  The living Wikipedia 
article needs to be continually editable so that the version that is on 
the 2nd printed edition can show further improvements.

Ec