On Dec 14, 2010, at 6:07 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >> The problem I have with this is not the content (presumably the author of >> the I-D is vouching for any references they use), it's that the content can >> change at any time. > > Hi Marshall. Mediawiki (the software behind Wikipedia and a lot of other > sites) solved this problem years ago. It is possible to link to a specific > version of any article on a Mediawiki site. Just look for the 'Permanent > link' link on the page. > > In my experience very few sites linking to Wikipedia use this capability, > proably because they don't know about it. Ideally anyone linking to > Wikipedia from an article would link to the specific version so that the > reader sees exactly what the author saw when they wrote the article. > > More recent versions of Mediawiki advise that the copy of the page is old and > provide a link to the latest version. That's fine too. > > Eg, here is a link to a version of the IETF article from yesterday: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Internet_Engineering_Task_Force&oldid=390092590
Then (although this is the IESG's call and this is just my opinion), I think that the IETF should require this usage in anything published. Regards Marshall > > Cheers, > > Rob > > -- > Email: rob...@timetraveller.org Linux counter ID #16440 > IRC: Solver (OFTC & Freenode) > Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com > Contributing member of Software in the Public Interest (http://spi-inc.org/) > Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
