Anthere wrote:
Grumble...another mailing list...grumble
Absolutely!!! Attrition is inevitable.
I succeeded to avoid it for at least one month, that is not so bad.
But *they* got me. Terrible.
This is a very good point. I have brought it up before. Really, if you move text from one page (or
from one language version to another) as part of the
move you should analyze the text and determine who
the >five major contributors are and list them in the
summary box. How to determine who the five major contributors are? Should it be via the amount of
text >each
contributes? Or the number of ideas? How to count ideas? Perhaps an alternative is to state where the page comes from that way someone should be able to work back and find out who made the contribution. ... Alex756
Applying any of these criteria, except for the five most recent contributors, can be the type of time-consuming process that people tend to avoid.
Agreed
AieAieAie, I think, reading comments by Alex,
Martin,
Ec...that it would be best that we just abandon this notion of authorship.
It would still be a good idea to always indicate the origin of a content moved from another place in the comment box.
Comment boxes just appeared one day without much discussion about how to use them in contrast to the article's talk page.
I've >just ignored the
feature.
Tu me parles d'un temps, que les moins de 20 ans, ne peuvent pas connai-tre. tididadidadaaaa, tidadidadadaaaa
Ok, I usually forget that feature as well. I thought it was part of the initial package. When did you arrive Ec ?
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