Hoi, The GFDL is intended for the documentation of software.. The WMF is finding a route towards a more appropriate license.. Getting an exception to make our life more easy is not really realistic I would say. The current practice is that people refer to the Wikipedia article and this is where you find all the authors.. a really pragmatic approach to something that would otherwise be unwieldy and hinder the freedom of using this material. Thanks, GerardM
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Tei oscar.vives@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de wrote:
Tei schrieb:
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Anonymous edits are not a problem. The problem is that the GFDL requires
me to
credit at least the 5 "main" authors, so the question is, how to
determine them.
Similarly, academic citing practices call for the 3 main authors.
WikiTrust
would allow us to easily determine who has contributed how much to a
given
version of a page. Which would be quite useful.
Seems there exist already tools to list contributors to a page.
Creators of Dios: http://toolserver.org/~escaladix/cgi-bin/auteurs.tcl?title=Dios&lang=eshttp://toolserver.org/%7Eescaladix/cgi-bin/auteurs.tcl?title=Dios&lang=es
http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikifam=.wikipedia....http://toolserver.org/%7Edaniel/WikiSense/Contributors.php?wikifam=.wikipedia.org&wikilang=es&page=Dios&max=200&grouped=on&order=first_edit
It will be normal for a wiki page to have 80 authors (thats a fact). If you want to chose only 3, you have to ignoring some authors for some subjective bias, like... strlen(concat(modifications)) , COUNT(edits),... o using WikiGenes (I guest, wikigenes work almost like that "Blame" feature of a CVS system). I feel like you will be lying to support some external limitation :/ Who is the author of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Thousand_and_One_Nights&& ? Maybe you sould ask for a exception on the GFDL, make so the authors of GFDL make a new version of the license that support how a wiki work, to avoid report 3 authors for a text that (by fact) has 80 authors.
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