On 7/20/07, Daniel Cannon <cannon.danielc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That would be poor design :). Naturally an annotation
will have to be
constructed from earliest to latest--it's the question of who
*introduced* a word or phrase into an article.
That depends on what you want from it. Annotation for source control
generally cares who *last* modified it, so you can find whom to
"blame" if something breaks. That would be useful for wikis too.
Annotation for attribution would be a bit different.
On 7/20/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Who gets the credit if I move a paragraph? Or correct
the spelling of
a word? Or, even worse, merge two articles?
Leaving aside the last, which I feel is the same issue as if you copy
the page from an entirely external source, it would depend on whether
you're looking for blame or attribution. For blame you alone get the
credit, for attribution you both do. The latter is considerably
harder to pull off, since it requires accurate classification of moves
versus additions/removals.