Hoi,
The GFDL is intended for the documentation of software.. The WMF is finding
a route towards a more appropriate license.. Getting an exception to make
our life more easy is not really realistic I would say. The current practice
is that people refer to the Wikipedia article and this is where you find all
the authors.. a really pragmatic approach to something that would otherwise
be unwieldy and hinder the freedom of using this material.
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Tei <oscar.vives(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Daniel Kinzler
<daniel(a)brightbyte.de>
wrote:
Tei schrieb:
...
Anonymous edits are not a problem. The problem is that the GFDL requires
me to
credit at least the 5 "main" authors,
so the question is, how to
determine them.
Similarly, academic citing practices call for the
3 main authors.
WikiTrust
would allow us to easily determine who has
contributed how much to a
given
version of a page. Which would be quite useful.
Seems there exist already tools to list contributors to a page.
Creators of Dios:
http://toolserver.org/~escaladix/cgi-bin/auteurs.tcl?title=Dios&lang=es…
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikifam=.wikipedia…
It will be normal for a wiki page to have 80 authors (thats a fact).
If you want to chose only 3, you have to ignoring some authors for
some subjective bias, like... strlen(concat(modifications)) ,
COUNT(edits),... o using WikiGenes (I guest, wikigenes work almost
like that "Blame" feature of a CVS system). I feel like you will be
lying to support some external limitation :/
Who is the author of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights&& ?
Maybe you sould ask for a exception on the GFDL, make so the authors
of GFDL make a new version of the license that support how a wiki
work, to avoid report 3 authors for a text that (by fact) has 80
authors.
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ℱin del ℳensaje.
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