On Oct 30, 2007 1:48 PM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And even if it is a discouragingly
"expensive" task for high-profile
articles, here's one definition of "reasonable": a short list of the
top five or so contributors (as suggested in GFDL section 4B), which
could be cached at an interval proportionate to the total length of
the history, i.e. greener articles would allow the "principal authors"
list to be re-cached more frequently, something like [[George W.
Bush]] much less so.
Most of the edits to a page with a long history are not by authors.
If in fact I'm hallucinating (must be that gray
acid) and meta-data
like this wouldn't actually put us any closer to obeying the GFDL, it
would at least be interesting for casual research while browsing
unfamiliar pages, and doing "&action=history&limit=5000" (or worse,
loading one page of 50 at a time) to get an overall response to the
mental question "lol, so whose work is this, really?" can be painful.
We're already obeying the GFDL in this regard. We list all the
contributors. Don't believe the FUD.