I think the whole idea of attribution of text in the body of the article is misguided, and I doubt that it will ever be implemented in Wikipedia or for that matter any Wikimedia project (with the possible exception of Wikinews).
Attribution sufficient for copyright is in the edit history, and anything further would be extraordinarily disruptive and contentious. We've got enough of that at the moment to last us for years. Wikipedia is a collaborative project, and articles are written by anyone at any time - so the only true attribution for the current state of an article at any particular time is to the "Wikipedia community" not "Editor So And So, Who Wrote Two Paragraphs 5 Years Ago."
On Jan 24, 2008 2:01 PM, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 1:50 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
As for how to attribute - it has to be by pseudonym since that's all we know, if people want to be credited under their real name they need to sign up under their real name, or get renamed to it.
Or add a preferences field "name for attribution." I personally would rather edit under a pseudonym but if I were given credit I would prefer my real name to be used.
-- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
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