On 12/21/06, Zoney <zoney.ie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
People who contribute on Wikipedia still own copyright
to their content,
they are merely licensing it under GFDL (and so others can use/modify/copy
it, subject to the new work being under GFDL).
I understand the point of WP:OWN - but it's not an excuse to avoid crediting
people for their work. Having the GFDL notice and history page is certainly
good faith, but it doesn't really seem like particularly good or useful
attribution. Most of the history page can be viewed as "spam" if you're
looking at it with an interest in attribution - as the bulk of it is usually
minor edits (formatting/language/style/accuracy tweaks) and
vandalism/reverts. The more major the article is, and longer history it has,
the more useless the history page is in this regard.
Right, I don't follow the concern about [[WP:OWN]] with respect to
that suggestion.
No machine generated list of copyright holders is going to be right..
better to let the folks who are interested add their own name to the
credits. Community standards (and bot based sanity checks) can make
sure no one spams the credit page without editing the article.
::shrugs::