[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Anthony]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Most people have chosen to ignore the "principal authors" requirement
>> and to try to attribute every author instead because there's no
>> obvious way to determine who the principal authors are. I remember a
>> few years back that Anthony tried a completely different approach,
>> where he created a full copy of Wikipedia (under the assumption that
>> it's a single GFDL work) and attributed it to five people on the
>> frontpage. Anthony, please correct me if my recollection is incorrect.
>>
>
> That's extremely misleading and/or incorrect.  I listed 5 authors on the
> title page (http://web.archive.org/web/20050202210758/http://mcfly.org/),
> but I listed *all* the authors on a page which I linked from a page entitled
> "GFDL History" (
> http://web.archive.org/web/20050217045214/en.mcfly.org/GFDL_History, which
> unfortunately does not contain the linked page, probably because it was so
> huge).
>

Ah, here it is:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071009040722/en.mcfly.org/Wikipedia+contributors,
which was linked from *both* the title page and the GFDL History page.

An explanation of how I complied with the GFDL is at
http://web.archive.org/web/20071008202154/en.mcfly.org/McFly_copyrights