[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Travel Guide: Board statement

[Nathan]

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:11 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> When we use 1911 Britannica texts, we only attribute to the encyclopedia,
> not its authors, so we can put "This text comes from Wikitravel".
>
> Anyway, if we are going to use Wikitravel texts, writing a script to scrape
> just the usernames from histories is trivial
> http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Kaprun&action=history
>

That's not really accurate, and not how Wikimedia projects expect to
be credited either. "Wikipedia" or "Wikitravel" are not the authors of
any project content (other than, for Wikitravel, that written by
employees in the course of their employment).