On 10/30/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Plastering up the content of the article with meta information is not good. At it's best it is distracting, at its worst it's spam.
I disagree strongly that a discreet "credit: John Smith" is "plastering", "not good", or "spam". I think it has the potential to improve our credibility and encourage more contributions. Obviously having little tags attributing every line of text to someone would be over the top, but a section at the bottom saying "main contributors: John Smith, BA, University of Melbourne; Fred Smith, software engineer" etc would surely help, rather than hurt.
With images, however, it's so easy and clear how to attribute properly: just look at the standard set by newspapers: "Photo: AAP", "Image: Getty" etc.
Steve