[WikiEN-l] Re: Print edition

Sat Feb 28 14:37:48 UTC 2004

Ray Saintonge wrote

>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.

Agree.  The threads on this issue are already a little tangled.  I agree
wholeheartedly with comments about the copyediting being key.

Invisible HTML comments could be used to insert standard messages such as
'above here is written in news style as a candidate short print article',
without much inhibiting further editing. Presumably anyone who cared enough
to put an article forward by adding this comment would watch edits to those
pages.  Perhaps that and another possible , less specific, message: 'this
page is currently being considered for the print WP'.

Charles