First, I apology for breaking the thread. Gname is not working for me for wikipedia-l and foundation-l, and I know not why.

"A" == Anthere anthere9-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org writes:

A> So, tel me if I understand well, to comply with the gfdl the A> best we can (and we already know it is problematic), what you A> suggest is to list first the real name contributors, followed A> by pseudonymes, then by ips.

OK, so, this feature is on its way with 1.3. I'm less concerned with the GFDL than with the Creative Commons Attribution-style licenses, by the way, which is what Wikitravel uses.

I'm not sure if this feature will be enabled on any of the Wikimedia projects, or how. My main concern is to make it easy for people redistributing Wikitravel content to conform to the attribution requirements of our license.

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First thanks for the detailed answer.

I am not sure current editors are requesting to have the names of authors in the wikipedia page, nor on a printed page. Why could not the requirements be on a separate page for the online edition, just by clicking on a link located at the top of the page ? The author page could list the last editors and all the others ones, and that would be a neater list that current history.

On a printed version, is it best as well, to add 5 names and last authors at the top of articles ? Or could we just not propose at the end of the special-for-print page, precisely a list of authors and the last one.

We should provide the list for legal requirements, but our names are only important for legal issues, not for readers. We are not so important individually, as to be listed at the top of articles, especially since we know that it is quite subjective to list these 5 names as five authors.

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I understand the proposition to list in order, real names, pseudonymes and ips. It is much cleaner and easier to read.

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Now, I have another question. Why asking in the preferences the real name of the editor ? What is that point of it ? *If people want to edit under their real name, they can create an account with their real name. They do not need two areas, one for a pseudonyme that is their real name and another for the same real name *If they do not want to have their name displayed everywhere, they can have a pseudonyme and place their real name on their user page *If they do not want their real name to be displayed at all, they just have a pseudonyme.

What is the sense to have a pseudonyme to hide a real name, if the real name is displayed in the contributors list to an article ?

Why the second field ?

Anthere

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