On 01/12/2007, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
As far as I can tell it's pretty clear: The copyright holder determines whether or not they want to designate someone else for the purpose of attribution -- and a participatory website like a wiki can _require_ such designation. Wikinews actually does: On the edit screen, it states that you agree that your edits will be attributed "to Wikinews".
Interestingly, this suggests we can't practically incorporate BY-SA material first published elsewhere into Wikinews without the consent of the author(s)...