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

[K P]

On 8/25/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
> [snip]
> > 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.
>
So, I'm wrong but right in the details?  Or vice versa.  It's still
different than an image.

KP