[WikiEN-l] Deletions snapped up by commercial organizations

[Matthew Brown]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
>  GFDL doesn't say anything about having a full wiki history for each
>  piece of text. A list of the authors who edited it available and
>  linked somewhere from the text should be fine, although wikipedia
>  destroyed the original list so it could prove somewhat troublesome for
>  them given the copyright owners who collaboratively authored the text
>  allowed wikipedia to destroy their contribution history.

Many administrators are willing to temporarily undelete to userspace
pages deleted for reasons other than libel, copyright violation etc.
in order for them to be exported with complete history.  I would
certainly do so.

-Matt