On 12/23/06, Katie the Obscure <nihthraefn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Several people have mentioned (in this thread)
crediting authors of a
page on the page itself. Wikia has/had an attribution feature which is
somewhat similar (see
http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Attribution ).
This incarnation probably wouldn't work for Wikipedia, but if it
appears useful, perhaps someone can submit a feature request/argue it
to death in the Village Pump until all our eyes are bleeding.
Two problems:
1) it presents some performance challenges on pages with longer histories
2) It's a terrific vandalism tool which is, I believe, why wikia turned it off.
It also, like page history, does a poor job of fairly representing attribution.