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[Thomas Morton]

This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution
have to relate to the exact contribution of each author.

A list of authors has been considered acceptable in the past (including
on-wiki).

Tom

On 12 June 2012 23:48, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +0000, Mike Dupont wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no
> one
> > is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as
> being
> > from wikipedia.
>
>
> You are very concientious, and normally this would indeed be adequate (not
> perfect,
> but definitely adequate :)
>
> It is adequate because wikipedia itself retains full attribution
> information in
> page history. One can follow the chain from the copy back to the wikipedia
> original
> back to the page history and voila, more than you ever wanted to know.
>
> The problem with deleted/hidden articles on en.wp is that the history
> information
> is also deleted/hidden; and therefore the attribution chain is broken.
>
> Attribution information is important for legal and open content reasons of
> course.
>
> Is it possible to keep a copy of page history somewhere also?
>
> I know the mediawiki export/import functions support this, and work
> via GET request.
> see
>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export
>
> eg:
>        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train
>
> sincerely,
>        Kim Bruning
>
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