avoiding forks (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] public service ads in Wikipedia?)

Wed Feb 16 19:44:26 UTC 2005

It would be wonderful and appropriate to list contributors at the
bottom of each page.  Wikitravel seems to have a nice patch for this,
which also lists the latest contributor; I wonder if it would be easy
to backport to the trunk of mediawiki.  (wondering also if Evan is
reading this :)

+sj+

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:29:26 +0100, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:26:55 +1100, David Gerard
> <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > I use my full name (rather than a net handle) on Wikipedia because it seems
> > more proper, and also the credit clearly then goes to ME ME ME ME ME.
> > Have they seen the history pages? It's usually clear which two or three
> > editors are primarily responsible for an article text.
> 
> Less clear than it might be. On a minor page you have to check about
> 10 edits to see that there are 1 or 2 people who wrote almost
> everything. On pages with much traffic it's more like checking 50 to
> find 5 of them.
> 
> Andre Engels

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