What is an attribution-by-history-reference? How come it has to be a url and not something like:
The term Bushism is a neologism that refers to a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, and semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of United States President George W. Bush. (Wikipedia, Bushism)
Isn't this the spirit of the new license? It lets you know that somewhere in the history of the Wikipedia article on Bushism you can find the author(s) of this piece of text. You could make it easier to find the author by allowing per-article history search in the software.
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/16 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
Erik Moeller wrote:
I think requiring attribution-by-history should be the best practice for heavily edited articles, at least until we more prominently point out the author credit in the article footer.
Eh? Which should it be? A requirement, or a best practise?
What I meant is, 'requiring attribution-by-history-reference seems like the most reasonable attribution requirement, at least unless/until attribution is more visible on the article page itself.' -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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