[WikiEN-l] Attributing "attribution required" free images

[SJ]

Finding ways to explicitly note edits as vandalism -- something we
already do for a decent percentage of vandal edits -- offers a simple
way to remove them from author lists.

SJ

On Oct 30, 2007 12:34 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 30, 2007 1:21 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > Presumably each author would only be listed once on the credits page,
> > as opposed to possibly hundreds or thousands of times on "the history
> > page".  That alone makes a credits page much more useful than "the
> > history page".
>
> Sure, so the one time vandal gets equal time to the person with
> thousands of edits.
> I guess we'll have to disagree on this one.
>
> > I think a semi-automated credits page would make the most sense.  So
> > "Throbbing Monster Cock" would get attribution by default, but this
> > attribution could be removed manually (or in some cases, by a bot).
> > Likewise, names could be manually added for copy/paste moves or
> > whatever.
>
> Hm. How about an editable part, then the image credits. Then a big
> list of all names which excludes anyone listed in the editable part.
> The big list could have vandal names hidden by sysops (bots?), and
> people who have opted-out are hidden.
>
> > But when someone makes a significant edit to a page, they would be
> > attributed automatically by default (they could opt-out of this, I
> > guess).
>
> Perhaps make the minor edit flag into a per edit opt-out flag. If all
> your edits are marked minor you are hidden in the credits page by
> default. Otherwise you can go hide yourself.
>
>
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