On Oct 30, 2007 2:47 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Ok. Having said that I'm off on holidays for the next week, maybe someone else can start the process? Drop a note at the village pump, maybe centralised discussion and somewhere else? Plus an explicit message here...
Sounds good.
Presumably something like {{author:...}} along the lines of {{defaultsort:...}} ? Then you're saying we just update the relevant template to markup that field specially. Cool. We're assuming that raw text is a good enough representation for authorship...maybe it would be better to be more explicit like "attributiontext" or "authorname" or something, to leave open the possibility for more details later on like contact information etc.
Yes.
Not sure. For some reason the Commons people are openly hostile to the idea of a mass import of free media to Commons.
AFAIK only because of things like Category:GFDL_Presumed and other mostly rubbish stuff.
And in any case the attribution mechanism will be useful for fair use images. I suggest we leave this as a problem for en people to solve in their own time - as long as the mechanism works, they can get around to rolling it out whenever they want.
Fair enough.
This is an utterly trivial software change (on the order of a few minutes) after the data is extracted and available in the database.
A MediaWiki software change? Also when you say "utterly trivial" do you mean that you can yourself perform it and get it committed? Out of curiosity, what's the normal lead time from a new feature going into the repository, and it appearing at en.wp ?
I can perform it and commit it myself. Lead time 'depends'. If there are changes in SVN which require a database schema change we'll lag further behind SVN. Right now we're about 3.5 weeks behind SVN.
The bigger issue here is that this feature would depend on the metadata magic word stuff above which is a bigger change which will likely require a schema change.