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List:       wikipedia-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Stable versions policy
From:       Brion Vibber <brion () pobox ! com>
Date:       2005-12-31 23:46:06
Message-ID: 43B7183E.1040604 () pobox ! com
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Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Arg. This solution is exactly what I've been arguing _against_. :) I
> like the idea of stable versions but I hate the idea of stable versions=

> being shown by default. I think showing stable versions by default will=

> cut off much of the influx of new editors since the "working" Wikipedia=

> will be hidden from view, and it's something that is better done by our=

> multitudinous mirrors anyway.

That's *not* done better by mirrors. It's not done *at all* by mirrors. M=
irrors
are totally irrelevant; what we need is to keep the random penises, libel=
, etc
off of the front page.

The front page, for the most part, is going to be whatever article people=

arrived at from a search engine, as visible on http://*.wikipedia.org.

Mirrors are their own affair; we've got our own butts to cover. Unless yo=
u want
us to take *.wikipedia.org out of the web's search engines (a simple chan=
ge to
robots.txt can do this), we need to recognize that we serve the public an=
d
provide an appropriate initial view for random visitors.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)


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