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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 4:50 PM, Nathan
<nawrich(a)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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