Requirement would be to give credit via the credit URL, and by
mentioning the principal authors listed at that URL. What authors will
be listed at that URL is something that we may change at our leisure:
for example, this may be the proposed list of five authors, or none if
more than five; or it may be a list of authors that is no longer than
1% of the length of the article, or none of longer; or, when
appropriate software is developed, the list of principal authors as
recognised by the software; it may even differ from project to
project, for example Wikisource may choose to credit the authors
manually (it is already doing something similar); and so on and so
forth.
Any system other than crediting everyone or crediting no one requires
choosing people. How do you propose that to be done? And why doesn't
the person that contributed the 6th most text (say) not deserve to be
credited for their work?
I don't agree with that; I do believe that every author with significant
(copyrightable) contribution should be credited.