LittleDan wrote:
If we just do that, we'd need some way to know their name in order to cite it, which is impossible. Why not have it all just be the same as Wikipedia is? That seems to be working. I don't like ownership of knowledge, and I'd rather that everything contributed to wikibooks, anonymous or otherwise, is considered authored by wikibooks, just like Wikipedia. Additionally, some textbooks (like my Algebra I textbook, for one) are partially based on Wikipedia content, so it would be nearly impossible to say that all of the non-anonymous contributers in any way own the content; that would just be too broad.
At first, you seem to be saying that we shouldn't change things. And then you describe the way that you'd like things to work.
Unfortunately, if I've understood you correctly, then these two things that you're saying are contradictory. That's absolutely /not/ how Wikipedia works now. This /is/ basically the suggestion for the change.
-- Toby