[Foundation-l] What's appropriate attribution?

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Friday 24 October 2008 01:19:20 phoebe ayers wrote:
> Pity the person who wants to reprint [[George W. Bush]] from en:wp...
> it has 13228 authors (6366 IP addresses!) Sure, most of them are
> vandalism, but I haven't seen any tool to pull out significant
> revisions. Does anyone know of such a tool or script?

On Wikitech-l we just had thread WikiTrust and authorship that discussed how 
such a tool could be made. It is doable.