On 11/12/08, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
(Don't try to convince me that the History link is "attribution", people who write for a living know that it's almost unusable for that.)
People who write for a living will starve on Wikipedia anyway.
In what way is the history tab unusable? Are you saying you would prefer an alternate view which lists users in descending order by number of edits to the page (rather than listing edits by user and timestamp)? There's something on the toolserver which does just that..
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikilang=en&wik...
History tab contains a link to this tool with the parameters filled in. Maybe it could be made more conspicuous.
Of course let me know if you meant something else.
—C.W.