On Wednesday 30 October 2002 10:35 am, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
I personally wouldn't have a problem with it--many of the country articles state their original sources (CIA/U.S. Dept of state website), as do many other articles--*but* he should know that, as a wiki, we currently can't guarantee that the citation will remain there permanently since anyone could remove it. So he'll have to decide if he wants to go ahead with it or not. That is very generous of him to consider it, though. :-)
kq
Whatever happended with the idea of have a log-like credits:namespace for this type of information?
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Mav wrote:
Whatever happended with the idea of have a log-like credits:namespace for this type of information?
I think that people decided that it wasn't necessary yet. This is just one more sign that it might be time.
-- Toby
Toby Bartels wrote:
Mav wrote:
Whatever happended with the idea of have a log-like credits:namespace for this type of information?
I think that people decided that it wasn't necessary yet. This is just one more sign that it might be time.
I am uncertain if a complete namespace is really necessary. I'd settle for a single line to edit, below the summary. That would be appended to the article prior to display, in a special style (say, "<center><font size=-1 color=grey>"). It would still be in wiki-markup, for ease of linking to an external site. If there's a lot of info to put there (though I can't see why, "Based on ...,with permission" should do), we just write an article about the person/organization/etc. and link there.
Question: Should that line be only available on the first edit, and after that only to sysops? That would reduce the chance of a vandal removing the text. It shouldn't change over time anyway...
Magnus
Magnus Manske wrote:
Mav wrote:
Whatever happended with the idea of have a log-like credits:namespace for this type of information?
I am uncertain if a complete namespace is really necessary. I'd settle for a single line to edit, below the summary. That would be appended to the article prior to display, in a special style (say, "<center><font size=-1 color=grey>"). It would still be in wiki-markup, for ease of linking to an external site. If there's a lot of info to put there (though I can't see why, "Based on ...,with permission" should do), we just write an article about the person/organization/etc. and link there.
Well, first it starts out based on an article from FOLDOC. Then it incorporates additional material translated from EL. Later, somebody adds an example code fragment written by the FSF. All of these (including the free license stuff) requires credits and links.
Of course, that's a pretty extreme example, and it *could* be done with your version still. In any case, we probably ought to do one thing or another.
-- Toby
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