I actually suggested such a thing in another thread on this topic ^_^ It would require a monster search index (all revisions of all article text), but it wouldn't get a ton of use so wouldn't use too many resources.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I advocate a much more flexible attribution scheme than listing the
authors
or printing a url to the history page. I think a simple (Wikipedia) is a sufficient attribution for text. If you have the text it is trivial to
find
the original author of that text. It's not so trivial with images, but a link to the history page of an image can be embedded in its metadata.
Could you implement a wikiblame extension? That would make attribution much cleaner.
SJ
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