In a message dated 11/30/2005 6:00:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, brion@pobox.com writes:

This'll be a complete waste; no one will ever look at the "frozen" wiki and it'll be ignored. (Being 'wiki' or not is not relevant; it'll simply never ever been seen. To be useful, the stable versions need to be right out front and fully integrated into *.wikipedia.org where people are already looking.)

What we need is a tagging system within the wiki, for a review team to use to mark certain revisions in certain states.

Articles with verified revisions will show those by default to the public, with a notice at the top of the screen about their status and if there are newer edits available.

Articles without verified revisions will have a notice at the top that they haven't been reviewed, making clear the 'in-progress' state of the system. I suggested a validation scheme like this about two years ago on meta.

Danny