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Article validation coming to MediaWiki 1.5 - we will likely use this to decide what get's published
(distinction between product and service in wiki and in practice. Workable start on Local vs. Global)
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I'm currently thinking that companies selling services should be arranged into a tree-like structure so that the [[companies]] provoding [[service]]s would be close to each other in the article hierarchy. And, yes, I know how bad this solution is for performance (I can actually read and write [[w:SQL|SQL]] (!)... after all [[MediaWiki]] is developed for [[Wikipedia]] where the common wiki-way is to avoid sub-articles so it's not at all optimised to traverse up and down subarticle-trees.
I'm currently thinking that companies selling services should be arranged into a tree-like structure so that the [[companies]] provoding [[service]]s would be close to each other in the article hierarchy. And, yes, I know how bad this solution is for performance (I can actually read and write [[w:SQL|SQL]] (!)... after all [[MediaWiki]] is developed for [[Wikipedia]] where the common wiki-way is to avoid sub-articles so it's not at all optimised to traverse up and down subarticle-trees.


===Article validation coming to 1.5===
[[m:Article validation|Article validation is a hot topic on meta today]] as [[m:User:Magnus Manske]] has once again implemented this feature as described in [[m:Article validation feature]] this time it seems to be integrated into [[MediaWiki]] in 1.5 tree and '''you can try it out [http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Main_Page here].'''
This new feature is likely the tool we are going to use to decide what gets published as facts and what doesn't.
Those of you who have been with us for a while may remember when we decided that [[Simple model for expressing opinions|articles about the real world get published when the "default signer" signs a version]] of an article thus the dreaded [[sysop]] doesn't get to make (or have the misery of having to decide) the decision of what goes and what doesn't.
The problem of whose responsibility it is to make these kinds of decisions doesn't evaporate away because someone has to '''decide''' who are the '''decision makers''' in each case.


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