[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:37 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> If I counted well, article about France has between 8.000 and 9.000
> >> edits up to this moment. I think that it is reasonable to suppose that
> >> this article will have 100 distinctive and significant authors -- if
> >> not now -- then in 5 or 10 years.
> >>
> >> I am reading now a B5 format book with ~40x70=2800 characters per page.
> >>
> >> One name has, let's say, 15 characters (btw, I am sure that we will
> >> demand listing the names if they are available, not just user names;
> >> as I said before, some kind of user boxes may be used for that). 100
> >> names would consume 1500 characters (let's say, 1400, a half of the
> >> page).
> >
> >
> > Half of a page for the list of authors of France.  Now, I just checked,
> and
> > a printed copy of the article on France takes up about 25 pages.  So
> > attribution takes up about 2% overhead, if indeed there are 100 authors
> like
> > you say.
>
> And *I* just checked that, and there are in fact 4077 authors (2100 IP
> addresses) for [[France]] on en:wp currently, according to
> http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl. This whole argument
> is off by an order of magnitude if you assume that only 1 in 4 authors
> is significant.


Seems like a poor assumption, considering more than half of the authors are
essentially anonymous.  I'd bet that less than 250 of those authors are
significant.


> And how do you tell precisely which of these 4000
> authors is, in fact, significant?


Precisely?  You'd have to go through each edit one by one.

Anthony