[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[David Gerard]

On 24/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> In theory the idea that public credit should be given for good work is
> nice - it is simply unworkable for Wikipedia. What is public credit?
> What is good work? Who gets credit, in which order? Can you change the
> credits over time? Who decides?


Easier: add a "show credits" link to pages that transcludes a list of
all contributors to text and images. Possibly images could then do
with a "creator/photographer" field so that's listed rather than the
uploader.


- d.