On Jan 24, 2008 4:50 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
The other thing you don't consider is that credit in the article is not required by either the GNU Free license or CC-by-SA. Any reuser would have the right to remove credit from the articles, and I expect most would exercise that right.
I don't think that matters. Almost all use of Wikipedia content is directly from the website. If it is printed out, it is too much effort to remove attributions. Other web sites that copy Wikipedia's content, do not edit the articles. I cannot imagine that any web site that doesn't remove footnotes would remove authorship.
And if it is clear who wrote an article, it is possible that some journalists will actually credit the author of the article in addition to Wikipedia, especially if Wikipedians insist that that should be the proper etiquette.
Regards, Ezra