[Foundation-l] Proposed revised attribution language

geni geniice at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 14:29:25 UTC 2009


2009/3/14 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/14 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:
>
>> The only thing *on* wikimedia websites that does
>> satisfy that currently is the history of articles; a direct
>> link into the history is sadly the only option available. I
>> think it is way cool that people are thinking of innovative
>> ways of formatting that information (in ways that would
>> for instance cut out the often inflammatory edit summaries),
>> but that is for the future.
>
>
> Here's an idea: nice URLs for the history. So we don't end up with
> stupid things peppered with ? and & and = printed on mugs, travel
> guides, etc.

If the people producing the mugs want that they are free to produce a
version of the history on their servers or more legally more solid
include a sheet of paper with a complete list of authors with the mug.



-- 
geni



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