Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-07-10/More stable versions

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Ummm... we should be checking our facts on this one. Stable versions was not started by Gmaxwell. In fact, I started a proposal called Wikipedia:Baseline revision that never hit the ground, and later User:Zondor started off stable versions. It has since evolved from there, and Gregory has been extremely important to the concept. I just think we should give credit where it is due: to Zondor. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:45, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

The article doesn't say that stable versions as a concept were started by Gmaxwell, so I'm not sure what the problem is. The story indicates in the lead paragraph that there have been a number of different variations and that we're focusing on one particular proposal, Wikipedia:Stable versions now, which quite definitely was started by Gmaxwell. Zondor made the first edits to Wikipedia:Stable versions, yes, but in the sense of the concept's overall history (which I'm not purporting to cover) that's so late in the game that it's not like Zondor invented the idea, either. Honestly, I don't know if it's feasible to identify who first suggested some kind of stable version in the sense of who gets "credit" for the idea, since it's sort of inherent in the original Wikipedia-Nupedia dynamic. --Michael Snow 16:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, fair enough. However, I was watching that page evolve, and Zondor really did kick it off. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Judging how hard it is for Meta administrators to synchronize the main Wikipedia portal with its development version in a timely fashion, some infrastructure would have to be built for this system, some kind of automatic queue interface, before admins would be able to handle the large workload of synchronizing so many articles on a regular basis. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 01:19, 14 July 2006 (UTC)