- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:13:49 -0400
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:03 PM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > But the 'we' in that sense is anyone who can edit the Wiki...which is anyone, as far as I can tell. It seems there is no sanity check. If this were a problem in practice, or if it weren't a problem in practice but people were worried in theory, you could add sanity checks without nullifying any of the positive aspects of the wiki approach. For instance, you could just use a system where anyone can edit the page, but there's a separate "stable" page that approved people can sync to the unstable page after review. In the case of MediaWiki, you could use the FlaggedRevs extension, which is enabled on several Wikipedia languages: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs In practice, with a handful of approved people to check the unstable version for sanity, you could have the stable version lag by a matter of hours or less on average. If it lagged by too much, people would still be free to use the unstable version if they preferred a more comprehensive list at greater risk of error. On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > I agree that some registries are not complete. I disagree that it's > necessarily the IANA's fault. The SVG issue is a nice example for that. Whose fault it is is entirely irrelevant for our purposes. If the IANA registry were hard to use because its servers went down on a monthly basis due to being struck by meteors because a former IANA executive was the subject of a gypsy curse, it would still be hard to use, and we would want to look for alternatives. That it's not their fault is no compensation for the fact that it doesn't work.
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