michael west schreef:
(Back to direct topic) The wayback convieniently lists all of wikipedias articles. In terms of GNU Lisense 4.B - what five contributors do you include? what about "red" and IP editors who presumably write and disappear?
You don't have to include the 5 most important contributors; just 5 important authors. The concept of a title page only makes sense if you consider Wikipedia as 1 document, in which case just pick 4 contributors from the list with editors with the most edits, and add Jimbo.
4B is not that problematic. For a case like BJAODN it's 4I that is the problem: it implies we should credit *all* of the contributers, as they are all included in the article history (which is how the section Entitled "History" has to be interpreted, I think, although linking to the Wikipedia article history, even indirectly through the article on Wikipedia, was traditionally considerd enough to be compliant with the GFDL).
Eugene