[WikiEN-l] Article authorship was: Making damn sure image attribution is very clear

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 8/25/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
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> even an entire article
> in Wikipedia is seldom ever the contribution of only one editor,

Do you have any evidence to support this claim?

All the data that I've seen so far suggest that most articles may well
be the product of single authors.  Not most high profile articles, or
most featured articles, ... but most articles. Most articles are
mostly short and on obsecure matters.

Yes, most have had edits by a few others. But these edits are
overwhelmingly tagging and markup related. It would often be hard to
argue that they were substantial enough to carry a copyright interest,
and no one sane would argue that such edits are enough to rightly call
the editor an author.