[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Contributors list

[Ulrich Fuchs]

Am Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 22:40 schrieb Magnus Manske:

>can't we declare the 
>whole wikipedia as one giant document in itself?

We should avoid that in any case. Where it leads to was shown recently: It 
allows you to copy the whole Wikipedia naming just 5 authors (say Jimmy, 
Larry, Magnus, Anthere and Eloquence). That's absolutely not acceptable for 
the thousands of other contributors which don't get credited any longer for 
their work. Being the Wikipedia the document, you could even go further and 
copy just a single article, declare it to be a modification of the document 
"Wikipedia", and name for example Jimmy, Larry, Magnus, Anthere and Eloquence 
as authors on an article where they never contributed to. 

Uli