[Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

Brian Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu
Mon Feb 2 23:41:33 UTC 2009


I actually suggested such a thing in another thread on this topic ^_^ It
would require a monster search index (all revisions of all article text),
but it wouldn't get a ton of use so wouldn't use too many resources.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:
> > I advocate a much more flexible attribution scheme than listing the
> authors
> > or printing a url to the history page. I think a simple (Wikipedia) is a
> > sufficient attribution for text. If you have the text it is trivial to
> find
> > the original author of that text. It's not so trivial with images, but a
> > link to the history page of an image can be embedded in its metadata.
>
> Could you implement a wikiblame extension?
> That would make attribution much cleaner.
>
> SJ
>
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