On 12/23/06, Katie the Obscure nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
Several people have mentioned (in this thread) crediting authors of a page on the page itself. Wikia has/had an attribution feature which is somewhat similar (see http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Attribution ). This incarnation probably wouldn't work for Wikipedia, but if it appears useful, perhaps someone can submit a feature request/argue it to death in the Village Pump until all our eyes are bleeding.
Two problems: 1) it presents some performance challenges on pages with longer histories 2) It's a terrific vandalism tool which is, I believe, why wikia turned it off.
It also, like page history, does a poor job of fairly representing attribution.