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I am thinking about how to produce a "production" quality version of Wikipedia.

So far, I am thinking that we need:
* some way of freezing or snapshotting a page as a 'release candidate';
* once a page is a release candidate, receiving contributions &mdash; issues or endorsements &mdash; as to the quality of the page ''[some sort of issues register, perhaps similar to Bugzilla]'';
* some controlled way of editing release candidate pages &mdash; to address issues, not to add new content;
* a promotion ladder 
** alpha/test
** beta/unstable
** production/publication/stable
* a group of moderators who can promote articles &mdash; to assess the contributions and determine whether a consensus exists, not to decide themselves; 
* a meta-moderation system to track the moderators; and,
* way of having multiple versions of a page without going crazy.

All this is based on the equivalent process for software, but it will need to be modified to meet the specific needs of Wkipedia.
[[User:M.e|m.e.]] 11:00, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

:I think all pages are always beta ;) They can always be changed and usually have some way to be fixed. [[User:Ilyanep| ]] &mdash; [[User:Ilyanep|<span style="color:grey;">Il&gamma;&alpha;&eta;&epsilon;&rho;</span>]] [[User talk:Ilyanep|<span style="color:#333333;">(T&alpha;l&kappa;)</span>]] 15:57, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)
::''They're always pre-alpha, at the moment [[User:M.e|m.e.]] 12:05, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)''.

::What you're looking for is [[User:Jimbo Wales/Pushing To 1.0]], though it seems to have stagnated a bit. Based on Jimbo's recent talk in London, it seems like he's planning to put together a fairly fully-worked out process to do everything you're talking about, and then opening it up for discussion again. --[[User:195.11.216.59|195.11.216.59]] 16:05, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

::Several such ideas have been floated: see [[m:Article validation]], [[m:Anonymous users should not be allowed to edit articles]], [[m:Referees]], [[m:Paper Wikipedia]], [[m:Sifter project]], [[User:172/History_Committee]], probably some others. . . [[User:Mirv|&#8212;No-One]][[User talk:Mirv|&nbsp;''Jones'']] 17:00, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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:::Hi, I've moved your question here as it was time to clean up the village pump and I didn't know if you'd seen all the replies yet. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 14:35, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
::::''Moved to separate page.'' [[User:M.e|m.e.]] 11:56, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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I've added this page to [[:Category:Wikipedia 1.0]], for obvious reasons :-) I have a draft action plan of my own too: [[User:David Gerard/1.0]] - [[User:David Gerard|David Gerard]] 01:51, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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