[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia hits the big time

Fri Mar 18 23:44:12 UTC 2005

The Cunctator wrote:

>On 3/16/05 10:04 AM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:
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>>I was approached by the director of a foundation (with a multi-million
>>dollar budget) to create a fork of Wikipedia leading to a print edition
>>to be published no later than 2008. If I do this, maybe it will get me
>>out of your hair? (The Cunctator wrote, "Rinse, wash, repeat.") But I
>>worry whether a fork is the best approach, or even necessary at all.
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>My comment was as much about the enabling behavior of the Wikipedia
>community was it was about Ed's.
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>That aside: one of the obvious baby steps that should be taken in regards to
>questions of reliability, tagging versions, etc., is to give people a
>permanent link to the current version of an article. Ideally in a relatively
>succinct format.
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>This does not exist--you can link without fear of change to historical
>revisions, but not to the most recent revision.
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>Not only should this functionality exist, it should be relatively obvious.
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>That would eliminate a *lot* of worries from the academic world--yes, the
>reliability of the information would still be questionable, but at least
>they'd know that the reference they make now will be identical at any time
>in the future.
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>And yes, I know this is difficult in the current code, but it's an important
>need.
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As I understand it, this is in the process of being fixed (or at least 
being made trivial to implement) in 1.5.
-- Neil