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

[David Gerard]

On 30/10/2007, Robert Rohde <rarohde at 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.