"AD" == Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org writes:
AD> Well, we don't list *all* contributors for the page.
This is true: the attribution block only lists those contributors that the software can figure out contributed. Stuff copy-and-pasted from other Wiki pages or other sources won't get attribution.
I'd like to correct this in the near future; I think the best way to handle it is to use field-value pairs:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-value_pairs
...and have a field called, I dunno, "outside contributor" or something.
[[outside contributor = Cory Doctorow]] [[outside contributor = Lawrence Lessig]]
(The "outside" is just a lame attempt to keep MediaWiki users from feeling they have to add their name in.) Wiki editors can note attribution in the body of the page.
But that's going to mean making field-value pairs work in MediaWiki, which probably won't be a 1.3 feature.
~ESP