[Foundation-l] Attribution made cleaner?

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Mon Feb 2 22:29:07 UTC 2009


On Monday 02 February 2009 22:41:37 Brian wrote:
> Following this line of reasoning in both directions, many users who
> contribute to an encyclopedia that "anyone can edit" may not want their
> name reprinted on every conceivable medium that their contributions could
> be replicated on. In other words, many users probably don't care even a
> little bit about the attribution requirements of the CC-BY-SA. They
> contribute under the implicit assumption that their work is in the public

Do you have anything to back your claims with?

> domain. An argument can be made that printing their username all over the
> place is an invasion of their privacy, since with a bit of Googling its
> often possible to relate that to their real identity. I've got a collection

Are you arguing that we should not have page histories?




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