On Thursday 22 January 2009 20:55:21 Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/1/22 Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.yu>: > > On Thursday 22 January 2009 19:52:28 Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> > Requirement would be to give credit via the credit URL, and by > >> > mentioning the principal authors listed at that URL. What authors will > >> > be listed at that URL is something that we may change at our leisure: > >> > for example, this may be the proposed list of five authors, or none if > >> > more than five; or it may be a list of authors that is no longer than > >> > 1% of the length of the article, or none of longer; or, when > >> > appropriate software is developed, the list of principal authors as > >> > recognised by the software; it may even differ from project to > >> > project, for example Wikisource may choose to credit the authors > >> > manually (it is already doing something similar); and so on and so > >> > forth. > >> > >> Any system other than crediting everyone or crediting no one requires > >> choosing people. How do you propose that to be done? And why doesn't > >> the person that contributed the 6th most text (say) not deserve to be > >> credited for their work? > > > > I don't agree with that; I do believe that every author with significant > > (copyrightable) contribution should be credited. > > So what was all that about only crediting 5 authors, or a list of > authors less than 1% of the article length, or whatever else?
These are examples of possibilities for people who disagree with me. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l