On 11 September 2010 08:40, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
In addition, if people are editing and changing attribution flags then there is a natural need to have version histories for license flags. In the existing system, this is accomplished by the revision histories of the pages showing changes in templates. This isn't ideal (for example the history of license changes isn't easily searchable), but it does fill a critical need. One could create a new log of attribution changes, but it's effectiveness would be limited unless one can see and revert to the attribution as it existed in the past (which is not a feature generally enabled by logs).
Perhaps something like how the interface for file revisions works - that is, a licensing-history tab (or somesuch ?) with state links, change data, diff links, and "revert to" buttons? But yes, this would be quite distinct from normal logs. :-)
The opportunities such a system would potentially give would be hugely cool e.g. in-line automatic RDFa hooks on the licensing of images on-page (and in-text, though I think community members for WMF wikis might complain), or "only let me see the actually free bits of this wiki", excluding the non-free components.
James