2006/8/28, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com>om>: Or you can just add info at the bottom of the article about its source and link to the source artilce's history. -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://www.ceti.pl/kganicz/poli/kontakt.html

Ask the community to request the import-function. That function allows you to import an article from another wiki with keeping the history intact. Lodewijk 2006/8/28, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com>om>:

On 8/28/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning(a)netzero.net> wrote: [snip] It's also worth noting that most articles have been edited by a very small number of users... and it is also true that many edits are not significant enough to gain a copyright interest.... and it's also true that a lot of users have little to no interest in attribution (claim supported by the number of anon edits made). So the end result is that we have these history pages which are often short, but sometimes very long, filled with people who are not authors, and whom often have no interested in attribution. With the new dynamic namespace support expected to be completed fairly soon, it should be possible to have multiple associated namespaces ... for example multiple article talk namespaces. Perhaps it's time we consider adding an article credits namespace... If you wrote a significant portion of an article, and desire attribution, you must add yourself to the credits page. Standard wiki-based review would keep people honest. This would greatly ease license conformance, and it would give us a place to put historical attribution data (such as histories from merged pages, and attribution for text sourced from other free sources) which is currently handled in a number of failure prone ways.

Brion Vibber wrote: importDump is busted in 1.7.1 (fails on NULL revision history). I already reported it over on mediawiki. Have not seen any fix for it yet. Jeff

effe iets anders wrote: The problem with that and transwikied articles in general is that it is only a raw history. One cannot go to the edits on the history list to see what was changed. This may be fine for fulfilling the technical requirements of GFDL, but many of the people in the history list may have contributed material that would be rejected on Wiktionary because it is encyclopedic. I view the Transwiki section of Wiktionary as a temporary hold, and encourage rewriting an article from scratch, after which the Transwiki article can simply be deleted. Ec