2008/10/24 Andrew Cates Andrew@soschildren.org:
This is the third time these questions have turned around just on this project. We ARE erring on the side of caution which is why we have all the image pages (unlike others...).
I wouldn't mind doing more but I would question the value of useless gestures. For example if you say who wrote what is irrelevant I can get a list of the 60,000 editors including IP addresses who have edited any of these articles and add it as plain text at the foot of the license page (similar to the German DVD model) but does that really help?
It would be far better (and no harder) to include a separate list for each article. That way you avoid worrying about the "Is Wikipedia a single GFDL work or a collection of GFDL works?" debate.
The legalities of the GFDL are so confusing and ambiguous that they are best ignored for the most part. Just try and follow the spirit of the license, which includes that attribution is required. Telling somebody how to find the list of authors in a place they can't access is not attribution by any reasonable definition.