Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)earthlink.net>
wrote:
How would marking a revision as stable cause a
fork of an article when
the subject comes up in the news? Editing would still be done from the
latest revision.
Because all those updates would be hidden behind the stable version. Thus a new article
would be
created that dealt just with that event so it can be linked from the Main Page and current
events.
No stable version = development version displayed.
One could argue that if there are current events that lead to drastic
changes to an article,
* the stable version can be "unset", thus displaying the current version
again. Reason: The old stable version is obviuosly outdated :-)
* a page could be set to a "current events" or "live" mode
individually,
similar to the soft protection tag. This could overrule any stable
version for the time being. That would need a (minor) software change,
though.
Magnus