[WikiEN-l] SOS Children Wikipedia Selection 2008/9 BitTorrent link up

[Bryan Derksen]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> Attribution for articles with thousands of associated usernames is not
> trivial and potentially very burdensome.

Perhaps we could make this easier by doing the work ourselves? I imagine
it'd be pretty straightforward to create a plugin for MediaWiki that
would collect a list of all the usernames that had edited an article and
throw away the duplicates and anonymous IPs. Maybe even add some way to
manually make note of content from other articles merging in.

> I've emailed Andrew Cates and asked to do what's possible to
> transition the product (both website & DVD) to direct website
> references to the history for each article. There may be limited
> flexibility on their part for the existing DVD copies, but we can at
> least gradually try to move the project to an acceptable level of
> compliance.

Thanks. I do support what they're doing, and don't want to be a jerk
about hounding a charity, but with Wikipedia's logo prominently
displayed on this one I want to make sure nobody thinks we're putting a
stamp of approval on this level of GFDL compliance.

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