[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

Erik Moeller erik at wikimedia.org
Fri Oct 24 18:47:59 UTC 2008


2008/10/24 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> More importantly:  You've picked a extreme corner case. Extreme corner
> cases shouldn't be neglected completely, but they are bad places to
> start policy discussions.

Please do take into account that the most popular and "interesting"
articles are also often the most likely to have a very large history,
though. So if you're compiling a collection that's not focused on
fringe subjects, you're likely to hit some articles that have very
many authors.
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

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