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.
On Jan 24, 2008 4:45 PM, Shmuel Weidberg ezrawax@gmail.com wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 4:29 PM, Ian A Holton poeloq@gmail.com wrote:
How about a separate author tab, similar to the revision one? All authors of non-minor marked edits could be named, possibly in the form of a "tag-cloud" where weight is given to the amount of edits and bytes added.
I wouldn't be averse to that knowledge being readily available, but I don't think it does the trick.
I don't think an automated process could ever give the proper amount of credit, and some types of credit are simply impossible to detect automatically.
I also think, that the authors must be part of the article when it is printed. It is not simply a matter of being able to find out who the author is, but acknowledging the author, and that can only be done properly if it is part of the article and hand edited.
The same thing that makes people afraid that people might get offended for being left off the list, is what gives it the power of rewarding people for the good work they have done by being acknowledged by other human beings.
Regards, Ezra
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