Maybe you should copy a few articles into your userspace and add credits to them in a way you think is appropriate. Once you've completed that initial exercise, trial the articles (and they can't be obscure stubs) in article space and see what people think. Be sure to make note on the talk page of the trial and its purpose. That would be a step more agreeable than trialing it on all new articles for a week - most new articles have a single contributor, and a lot of them are stubs or of low quality.
Nathan
On Jan 24, 2008 5:04 PM, Shmuel Weidberg ezrawax@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 4:50 PM, Nathan nawrich@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
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