csherlock(a)ljh.com.au wrote:
You should note that before I left the project, I
started this with
[[Wikipedia:Baseline revision]]. This was designed to have no noticable
disruptionn of the main article (I directly linked to a proposed
revision, this was done on a subpage that hangs off the article. The
discussion of the revision is done on the talk page.) It was my hope
this could allow for a "stamped" version of a FA page that we could
proudly state is the most reliable version and guaranteed not to be
vandalised.
This is of course still sorta possible: anyone can link to chosen good
versions of articles.
The problem is that the selection person/committee won't scale ...
Regrettably, it looks like my idea has fallen through.
I hope that
Wikipedia can find a credible alternative.
... however, Magnus Manske has announced that he will be getting the
[[m:Article validation feature]] into shape for MediaWiki 1.5. w00t!
This may be useful to supply baseline versions by consensus, with
comparatively very little human tweaking needed afterward for a
distribution.
- d.