On 6/10/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
GNU lisense simply states that we should credit Wikipedia. It would be impossible to quote every single editor.
No, it doesn't. It doesn't say anything about Wikipedia at all, nor does it say that publishers can take credit in lieu of authors/creators.
The History tab is surely there as a tool against vandalism ON
EXISTING articles. As most editors are anonymous, it is just foolish to suggest that every editor be credited. Nobody is saying that the article existed somewhere else or that many editors contributed to it. They use those article in the sense that "this was on wikipedia" but no longer. The GNU lisense covers that.
Unfortunately that is incorrect, since we are legally required by the GFDL to credit all authors. Have you actually read the GFDL and the relevant pages in the Wikipedia namespace?
Johnleemk