On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Aphaia aphaia@gmail.com wrote:
One thing we can do would be to make contributors' names more visible. Translators for WMF stuff too (Ting Chen made a good point about the latter in Alexandria). Many websites gives clear credits to contributors - not only for-profit media, but websites whose content is mainly written by volunteers, like Global Online. In TED related translations, their translators' names are on the same webpage of video or transcript, and much visible than in MediaWiki history pages.
I think that would be a great idea, although it does have some nuts and bolts - some way or another, one will have to filter out those who did just minor edits, for example, or people who do not want their edits to be named. Then again, the strength of our system is that our system doesn't need to be perfect, if it's community-editable things will probably work out quite reasonable. I myself would be much in favor of it, and if I did not fear the "that's not how we do things" and "that's unwiki" crowd, I might even have considered doing a test with it.