On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:26, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Delirium wrote:
This is a bit vague though -- it seems to
indicate that essentially
all they have to do is preserve the credit in the author list of the
original document: but Wikipedia documents do not have an author
list. One can be inferred by looking at the page
history, but there is no explicit list anywhere of "these are the
authors of this document."
Well, we've always treated this as "It's in the 'Page
history'". But
it probably would be simple enough to have a link to 'Authors' on each
article, and when you click on it, you get a list of all unique id's
that worked on the article.
Presumably, at some point as we draw closer to 1.0 and the possibility
of print reuse, we'll want to have a setting in preferences for people
to (optionally) put their real name for attribution purposes. And
then on this 'author' page would show that as well.
I strongly think we're better off formalizing a policy in which
particular author attribution is not required. That is, by contributing
to Wikipedia, you agree to be attributed as one of the "Wikipedia
Contributors" or somesuch.