avoiding forks (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] public service ads in Wikipedia?)

[Andre Engels]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:26:55 +1100, David Gerard
<fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> I use my full name (rather than a net handle) on Wikipedia because it seems
> more proper, and also the credit clearly then goes to ME ME ME ME ME.
> Have they seen the history pages? It's usually clear which two or three
> editors are primarily responsible for an article text.

Less clear than it might be. On a minor page you have to check about
10 edits to see that there are 1 or 2 people who wrote almost
everything. On pages with much traffic it's more like checking 50 to
find 5 of them.

Andre Engels