On 27/09/06, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
As a mergist, I heartily endorse this event or product.
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