[Wikipedia-l] road to stability, formatted. last kick-off posting.

Wed Dec 7 20:18:14 UTC 2005

Magnus Manske wrote:

> Setting a version as stable is currently not logged; this isn't a
> technical problem, but sheer lazyness on my part.
> There is a problem with templates; even a stable version will use new
> templates. I do not have a neat soultion for that, except generally
> limiting write access to templates. However, misinformation through a
> template will be hard to achieve anyway, compared to directly editing
> article; also, template changes will be noticed rather quickly.

Would a neat solution be to attach a list of the revision IDs of all
templates in the stable version, so that when the page is called up it
calls up those versions of the templates? Or is this harder than it sounds?

- d.