On Jan 24, 2008 4:50 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)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