[Foundation-l] Five main authors myth

[Anthony]

On Dec 4, 2007 6:53 PM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> As the WMF provides databases that do not contain the relevant metadata, I
> would certainly say that the WMF's actions amount to a de facto claim that
> article content can be distributed without history listings.  If that is not
> the WMF's intent, then they ought to at least make clearer to reusers that
> they will need more than just the articles dump and provide mirror sites
> with a way to obtain and use history information without loading every
> historical version of every article.  (Not least because there are no
> complete and working history dumps of the largest wikis).
>
FWIW, the stub-history dumps provide all the authorship information
needed to be GFDL compliant.  I agree with your sentiment, though.