[WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages and GFDL

Thu Dec 8 15:50:44 UTC 2005

On 12/8/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> So, in this case, the GFDL is violated.
> As it is violated each time a full portion of article is moved to create
> another article with no mention of the original author or source.
>
The GFDL is pretty much always violated, at least in the sense that
it's never followed, on Wikipedia.

> We may pretend it does not matter at all; but the truth is that most
> authors are proud of their work. And it is hard to be striped of one's
> authorship. If it were not true, we would not be so numerous to list
> articles we wrote.
>
We should add an *editable* history section.  Call it the history
namespace.  Put a link to it next to the link to the talk page. 
Automatically add a username to it when the user edits a page (at
least if they are making a new edit for the year), and manually add a
username to it when text is copied.  Automatically coalesce multiple
edits by the same person in the same year into a single entry. 
Include the title of the page in this section entitled history, this
way if the page is moved you have a history of the previous titles. 
Allow people to swap in their real name instead of their username. 
Forget the diffs, they aren't important for the purpose of listing
authors.

This would be an attempt at an actual solution to the big mess which
we have now.

Anthony