On 6/7/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
Also, I don't have anything against making it a choice. Just that it would be helpful if it were the default. That we act like it's important to credit IP addresses is a sign of a broken policy.
By default we are required to credit everyone. Whether they edit as a name or a number is not relevant.
They're not editing as a number. Remember that for a long time we obscured the leading digits of IP addresses when displaying non-logged in edits. Are those edits not properly credited? Going down this line of reasoning rapidly leads to silliness.
The proportion of significant content (i.e. whole paragraphs) added by IP users is higher than you think. There was a study on this, I'll see if I can find it.
It's not higher than I think. I'm pretty cognizant of how Wikipedia functions.
I would love it if those who profess to care about pure GFDL compliance would do something about restoring the lost edit histories in the 2001-2002 period of a large number of entries.