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System for creating stable version of Wikipedia articles without forking
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Author: mapellegrini

Description:
(Originally posted to slashdot -
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178045&cid=14767973 after which I emailed
Jimbo and he seemed to think it was a good idea, so I'm posting it here)

I propose giving admins a "Copy to stable" button for each article. When
pressed, it copies the article to http://en.wikipedia.org/stable/Article_name.
The stable wikipedia would not be directly editable, but could only be changed
by clicking the "Copy to stable" button. This would prevent stable from becoming
a true fork.

Alternatively, it could be set it up so that an article would not be copied to
stable until a certain number of admins (say, 3) had marked it as stable.


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Severity: normal

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 21 2014, 9:09 PM
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Wiki.Melancholie wrote:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3303 ***