--- Toby Bartels toby+wikipedia@math.ucr.edu wrote:
LittleDan wrote:
If we just do that, we'd need some way to know
their
name in order to cite it, which is impossible. Why
not
have it all just be the same as Wikipedia is? That seems to be working. I don't like ownership of knowledge, and I'd rather that everything
contributed
to wikibooks, anonymous or otherwise, is considered authored by wikibooks, just like Wikipedia. Additionally, some textbooks (like my Algebra I textbook, for one) are partially based on Wikipedia content, so it would be nearly impossible to say
that
all of the non-anonymous contributers in any way
own
the content; that would just be too broad.
At first, you seem to be saying that we shouldn't change things. And then you describe the way that you'd like things to work.
Unfortunately, if I've understood you correctly, then these two things that you're saying are contradictory. That's absolutely /not/ how Wikipedia works now. This /is/ basically the suggestion for the change.
-- Toby
I guess I have a bad view of how things work. I was under the impression that everything contributed to Wikipedia was just Wikipedia's, not the author's. That's what I was trying to say. -LDan
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