Brion Vibber wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
Brion, please note that this is not about my
latest cute little script.
AFAIK, there is currently *no* way to publish the GWB article as
demanded by the GFDL
[snip]
Would you mind talking to our legal counsel about that? It would be crazy of us
to go splashing in features for "legal" reasons that don't actually exist.
Brion, please refrain from quoting half-sentences of mine, which gives
the impression I said something I didn't.
There is no legal necessity for the "list authors" feature. I never said
that. I said that it is currently very inconvenient to fulfil the
demands of the GFDL, because you have to download the entire wikipedia,
including history, to correctly publish a single article. What good is
it to have an open license if taking advantage of that is a PITA? (I'm
talking non-geeks here, and geeks who have a slow machine/internet
connection/etc.)
If you want to contribute something that is actually helpful, please run
the one little SQL query I asked you to run, and tell us how many
seconds it takes. Maybe run it again ignoring anons. If it take 2
seconds, the feature could be activated (for the time being, of course);
if it takes 30 seconds, activating it on Wikipedia is certainly out of
the question.
Magnus