On 6/7/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/6/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)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.