[WikiEN-l] Attributing articles to their authors

[Andrew Gray]

On 24/01/2008, Shmuel Weidberg <ezrawax at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 3:04 PM, 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?
>
> Public credit as I mentioned would be a section at the end of the
> article much like Brittanica has. I don't believe they credit the
> minor editors.

A fundamental problem is that we make no distinction between "editors"
and "authors", but there are very different cultural expectations for
how those two classes of contributors to a work are recognised.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk