In a message dated 11/12/2008 2:21:46 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, wikimail@inbox.org writes:

In order to deprive us of honor that you may then deprive us our wealth, you have always regarded us as slaves who deserve no moral recognition.>> --------------------- I.E. you do the work and your boss gets the credit. I think Dolly Parton said it as well.

That's the shining light of Knol, or at least the theory. That those who write the articles *do* get attribution, but so-far it's not quite working out as I'd thought. I have two Knols where I actually have *minor* co-contributors, but the majority just seem to be read without comment. Maybe I'm just that perfect of a writer. I wonder if there is some measurement in Wikipedia of the *average number of contributors per article* ?

Perhaps it's only something small like 1.5. Maybe most articles are written by a single author.

Maybe one way to improve Wikipedia would be a two-tier approach where articles start out with attribution but once an article achieves "critical mass", the list of contributors just becomes "a bunch of people" instead of specifying the names. (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.)

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