On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yuwrote:
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 03:23:51 Erik Moeller wrote:
2009/1/20 geni geniice@gmail.com:
1)This isn't legal within anything close to the current wording of the page.
CC General Counsel has confirmed that our proposed attribution model is consistent with the language of CC-BY-SA. There is no need to use attribution parties - our proposed approach is consistent with 4(c)(i) and 4(c)(iii).
Don't know about this wording thing, but as a Wikipedia author, I have to say that I do not think that attributing me in this way is sufficient. As a Wikimedian, I believe that a lot of people will feel the same. And as a programmer, I do not see why is this controversy necessary at all, as a number of people have presented a variety of solutions that make it possible to analyse the revisions and extract authors with satisfying accuracy.
I disagree. The technical analysis misses contributions which remain in conceptual form (layout of a page, sections completely rewritten but not reconceptualized). It also is error prone. Original authorship of text returned to an article by later editors after it's deleted by an intermediate editor is often hard to properly automatically trace, as it can require n-way compares with n large.
There's nothing wrong with this method of attribution - it's better than we have or require now. It's less than what GFDL says it requires, sure, but Wikipedia has never held to the letter of that, and anyone who's contributed to Wikipedia once they were aware of that can be held to have implicitly waived that particular GFDL clause in favor of "what we're actually doing".
This improves what we actually do. Why would you think it's worse?