Erik Moeller wrote:
2009/1/16 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
I must be a moron or at least functionally illiterate, since I simply cannot parse the previous paragraph in a way that makes logical sense.
:-)
Imagine that:
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Unlikely? Perhaps - though some people say that the evil reptilian kitten eater takeover has already begun. The way around this is to formulate attribution requirements that do not require specific reference to Wikipedia, but only to the individuals who contributed the text.
This actually looks fairly good on the surface, if that would in fact be all there was to it...
If there really was a superordinate goal of requiring reference to the individuals who contributed the text, I would be the first to applaud you, Erik. It seems though that the _prospect_ of very speculative and indecisively defined new ways of showing editors _on_ wikipedia pages fringes (not requiring it downstream even), is what is really concretely even hinted at...
So, come on... we just aren't buying the spiel.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen