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
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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