2009/1/23 Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com:
I wonder - would it be possible to get some kind of script set up to take, say, a thousand of our most popular articles and tell us what the "cite all named authors who make nontrivial contributions" result would be like? This might be a useful bit of data...
If you define "nontrivial" for me, that should not be too hard...
Nikola's cutoff above was "If all edits shorter than 10 characters are excluded..." - this sounds not unreasonable, since adding three words or more will take you over it.
I'm not sure quite how the results were obtained via WikiBlame, but it certainly seems a little more meaningful than just dumping every name which appears in the article history. (Admittedly, that has the advantage of not accidentally excluding anyone...)