[WikiEN-l] Process wonkery

[Zoney]

On 27/09/06, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
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> As a mergist, I heartily endorse this event or product.
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As a mergist - how do you get around the difficulties of preserving the
history of the content (wrt. attribution under GFDL)? Even if the copyright
owner , by licencing their content under GFDL, has no say on the free re-use
and modification of the GFDL-licenced content - attribution is required
where their content is used - and currently Wikipedia's only pseudo-method
of attributing text content is page history (for images of course, the
attribution *should be* directly added to the image page - meaning that it
is not so critical if history is mucked up - e.g. by a move from en to
commons). That does fine until there's a merge (which unless it's merging
copy-paste redirects, usually involves copy+paste willy nilly). Regardless
of GFDL licencing, copyrights are still held by the thousands who have added
to Wikipedia; and as the text has not been released into the public domain,
attribution is required (even if only by way of having the article history).

Zoney
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