There's a long outstanding bug [1] to ensure that accurate attribution is maintained when templates are substituted. I don't think this is the same as maintaining attribution of external imports, but it may be that whatever solution is implemented for one can be generalised to allow the other.
Conrad
[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6785
On 11 September 2010 01:51, Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Dan Nessett dnessett@yahoo.com wrote:
After asking around, one suggestion was to keep the licensing state in the page_props table. This seems very reasonable and I would be interested in comments by this community on the idea. Of course, there has to be a way to get this state set, but it seems likely that could be achieved using an extension triggered when an article is edited.
Note that the page_props table is parser-owned. This means that entries for a specific page are cleared and reinserted when a page is reparsed. You should take that into account when using the page_props table.
I'm not sure if page_props is the correct way to go. Copyright is associated to a specific text or image revision. Therefore, it seems more obvious to put the licensing in the revision and image table and their respective archive tables.
Bryan
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