[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[Ian A Holton]

How about a separate author tab, similar to the revision one? All
authors of non-minor marked edits could be named, possibly in the form
of a "tag-cloud" where weight is given to the amount of edits and bytes
added. 

Ian [[User:Poeloq]]
 
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 21:22 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 24/01/2008, Shmuel Weidberg <ezrawax at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 24, 2008 4:08 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't need to happen often for it to be a problem. Even if 99.9%
> > > of articles never have a problem, that still leaves over 2000 articles
> > > that we'll have to fight over.
> >
> > I really don't think it's a problem. There are plenty of resources.
> > There will always be people who will be happy to adjudicate cases like
> > this. I think questions about authorship will come up less often than
> > requests for article deletion. And many of those debates are even more
> > stupid than the ones that would come up about article attribution.
> 
> Are you sure there will be people willing to adjudicate? I certainly
> wouldn't want to be the one to tell someone their contribution isn't
> worthy of credit. There are plenty of people willing to adjudicate
> content disputes, sure, but this isn't about content, it's about
> people, and that changes things.
> 
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