On 30/10/2007, Robert Rohde <rarohde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you ignore the substantial problem of text
migrating from one article to
another (admittedly a big deal), then I would have to disagree that it can't
be done automatically. It shouldn't be done in real time, but a computer
with access to the full revision history could figure out how much of the
current text each historical contributor was responsible for, and this could
be used to identify primary authors and add their names via a bot. It's not
a trivial problem but the existing research efforts on the persistance and
evolution of text in wiki articles already largely address these issues.
Simpler solution:
1. Change "History" to "History and credits".
2. Include image histories on the history page.
- d.