In theory, yes. However, if you're fetching page dumps conforming to the schema at http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.6/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.6.xsd
to some extent you've already got all the information anyway. It *almost* takes more work to filter out just the authors. :-P
If you're getting page data in some different format, sure. :-)
sincerely, Kim Bruning
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:47:31AM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution have to relate to the exact contribution of each author.
A list of authors has been considered acceptable in the past (including on-wiki).
Tom
On 12 June 2012 23:48, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +0000, Mike Dupont wrote:
Hi,
Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no
one
is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as
being
from wikipedia.
You are very concientious, and normally this would indeed be adequate (not perfect, but definitely adequate :)
It is adequate because wikipedia itself retains full attribution information in page history. One can follow the chain from the copy back to the wikipedia original back to the page history and voila, more than you ever wanted to know.
The problem with deleted/hidden articles on en.wp is that the history information is also deleted/hidden; and therefore the attribution chain is broken.
Attribution information is important for legal and open content reasons of course.
Is it possible to keep a copy of page history somewhere also?
I know the mediawiki export/import functions support this, and work via GET request. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export
eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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