Hi,
Before posting a bug for this, I thought I should pop a question to
see if somebody hasn't done this already.
Some of the content partners I'm in contact with are not really happy
about being attributed on the talk page and/or the history of the
article. I was thinking that we could have an extension that could
handle this. The solution I came up with was:
* have some <attribution></attribution> tags in the article; place all
the requirds attribution text between those tags in plain wikitext
* when parsing these tags, don't include the result in the main
article div (mw-body), but rather create a new tab below mw-body,
which will contain the attributions. This new div should be visually
different from the article.
I am aware this solution is prone to vandalism, but it is also a
simple way to include attributions without any additional knowledge
from the editors.
So, my questions are:
1. Has somebody done a similar extension before? If yes, is it stable
enough to deploy on WMF wikis?
2. If not, would somebody on this list be willing to make it? I don't
feel my PHP is strong enough for me to take on this, but I will help
in any way I can.
Thanks,
Strainu