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

[Mark Williamson]

I strongly disagree.

Mark

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:44:26 -0500, Sj <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be wonderful and appropriate to list contributors at the
> bottom of each page.  Wikitravel seems to have a nice patch for this,
> which also lists the latest contributor; I wonder if it would be easy
> to backport to the trunk of mediawiki.  (wondering also if Evan is
> reading this :)
> 
> +sj+
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:29:26 +0100, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
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