Talk:Stable versions FAQ/English

Wikipedia stores all versions of an article. It is later comprehensible, who (user name or IP address), when which changed in an article. Additionally the respective user is stopped to summarize the change or to indicate a source for the work. The "stable version" is the marking of one of these versions according to criteria, which were specified before by the Wikipedianern.

What for criteria is that?

So that a version of an article is marked as "vandalisierte version", a person must examine the article for the absence of obvious Vandalismus. The article should not be as revision-needily marked or as in the neutrality disputed. Vandalisierte version can become only a version provided with a ground level at external vouchers.

Is that everything?

That is already once a quantity. The goal with the project "vandalisierte version" is it to give to readers of the Wikipedia an additional assistance. There is - exactly the same as with the remainder of the Wikipedia or with other knowledge portals like Brockhaus enzyklopaedie.de - no warranty over the correctness, completeness or neutrality of information.

What brings thus vandalisierte version in the comparison to the past Wikipedia?

Hope with the surface covering employment of the stable version is that the risk sinks to come with contents into contact which are from inferior quality. Completely roughly here an exchange of fire topicality takes place against Vandalismusschutz.

For which kinds of articles is vandalisierte version particularly suitable?

In principle the stable version for all articles is suitable. The "loss" at topicality might be in principle with terms smaller, which are not age-endangered both from their topic (Goethe) and besides in the Wikipedia already in a developed condition are. Under Special:Ancientpages is a list of the articles, which were not the no more edited at present at longest. Some this article for XXX months were not no more changed. It is not impossible that some from you are however revision worthy.


 * Is the Seigenthaler debacle responsible for this new feature?
 * While it may seem this feature is clearly a reaction to such events, it is the result of discussion and debate that began in the years prior than the negative media attention. Wikipedia was created as a means of developing articles for Nupedia, a Web-based encyclopedia whose articles were written by certified experts, also co-founded by Jimmy Wales. After Nupedia ceased, many editors pushed to create a seperate website for stable Wikipedia articles to be posted or published. This gradually evolved into proposals for the dynamic, direct solution that the German Wikipedia will be testing.

Is the marking connected as "vandalisierte version" with a quality judgement?

Vandalisierte version should freely in principle of extreme negative quality criteria (vulgo: Vandalismus) its. For positive quality judgements there are like been having the procedure of the Exzellenten articles. Both procedures are combinable and impair themselves mutually not: In the version history of a exzellenten article a version can be marked as stable.

What are the next steps?

It is conceivable that the software MediaWiki, with which Wikipedia runs, does not bring to announced users (or not announced users in principle) vandalisierte version of an article presented and a small reference when desired, if there is no stable version to an article.

It is conceivable that the Wikimedia Foundation Downloadversionen of the article data bank makes available, which consists alternatively only of the stable versions or at least if possible of the stable versions (and otherwise from the most current versions) of the individual articles.

Is conceivable to combine this function with static.wikipedia.org a version of Wikipedia contents in (place and resources-saving) a static form static.wikipedia.org is an experiment, which aims at particularly the employment of the Wikipedia with extremely limited net resources. It is at present not yet completely operational.

Like always much and it are conceivable still some experiments and development hours will need, in order to come here to applicable solutions. At present the number of the suggestions and variants exceeds the number of the programmers, who convert the suggestions in program code.

Is each article to get vandalisierte version?

In principle it must be able to give a stable version from each article. It will surely give thereby a large heap unproblematic articles, many uncritical articles and a handful of nerviger and time-consuming special cases.

Who answers further questions to me to the vandalisierten version?

Please you turn to the press contact of the Wikipedia. A E-Mail to presse@wikipedia.de is enough.