[Wikipedia-l] History of pages, author issues.

[David Jones]

In message <ILENJBCFHGHELEBFPPBGMEAHCFAA.Magnus.Manske at epost.de>, "Magnus Mansk
e" writes:
> OK, let's try this without a flame war ;)
> 
> > The history of pages has been amputated when changing to the new
> > software, in other words, changes made before the new PHP software are
> > not accessible.  I see two problems with this:
> >
> > 1) Lost authorship.
> > 2) Lost changes.
> 
> * As Wikipedia articles have no author, there's no authorship.

There is an author (as I think Jimbo has pointed out); when I write text
in an article I am the author of that text and the owner of the
copyright.  When I hit submit I, as the copyright holder, license it to
be used under the terms of the Gnu FDL.

The fact that the community doesn't really recognise authors doesn't
affect the law.

> * The reason why I didn't convert the article history as well as the
> "current" versions is simply that I didn't figure out how to read the
> UseModWiki history format. I asked several times, even on the 'pedia, for
> help, but...

Hmm.  I have submitted what I have learnt from an hour or two of
eyeballing the code in another message.  You should probably badger
me if I can me of any more help.

Cheers,
 drj