On Oct 30, 2007 1:21 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Presumably each author would only be listed once on
the credits page,
as opposed to possibly hundreds or thousands of times on "the history
page". That alone makes a credits page much more useful than "the
history page".
Sure, so the one time vandal gets equal time to the person with
thousands of edits.
I guess we'll have to disagree on this one.
I think a semi-automated credits page would make the
most sense. So
"Throbbing Monster Cock" would get attribution by default, but this
attribution could be removed manually (or in some cases, by a bot).
Likewise, names could be manually added for copy/paste moves or
whatever.
Hm. How about an editable part, then the image credits. Then a big
list of all names which excludes anyone listed in the editable part.
The big list could have vandal names hidden by sysops (bots?), and
people who have opted-out are hidden.
But when someone makes a significant edit to a page,
they would be
attributed automatically by default (they could opt-out of this, I
guess).
Perhaps make the minor edit flag into a per edit opt-out flag. If all
your edits are marked minor you are hidden in the credits page by
default. Otherwise you can go hide yourself.