On Oct 30, 2007 1:21 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
Presumably each author would only be listed once on the credits page, as opposed to possibly hundreds or thousands of times on "the history page". That alone makes a credits page much more useful than "the history page".
Sure, so the one time vandal gets equal time to the person with thousands of edits. I guess we'll have to disagree on this one.
I think a semi-automated credits page would make the most sense. So "Throbbing Monster Cock" would get attribution by default, but this attribution could be removed manually (or in some cases, by a bot). Likewise, names could be manually added for copy/paste moves or whatever.
Hm. How about an editable part, then the image credits. Then a big list of all names which excludes anyone listed in the editable part. The big list could have vandal names hidden by sysops (bots?), and people who have opted-out are hidden.
But when someone makes a significant edit to a page, they would be attributed automatically by default (they could opt-out of this, I guess).
Perhaps make the minor edit flag into a per edit opt-out flag. If all your edits are marked minor you are hidden in the credits page by default. Otherwise you can go hide yourself.