Well, quite a number of people (including me) do not agree with you on that point.
Gerard Meijssen skrev: > Hoi, > Due credit is given. It is given to the extend that the amount of attention > and detail is unparalleled. > Thanks, > GerardM > > 2009/2/26 John at Darkstar <vac...@jeb.no> > >> Adding authors, even if they write under pseudonyms, gives due credit as >> described in the copyright laws of several countries and also gives >> those persons added cultural capital. I guess someone can elaborate >> about how cultural capital and economic capital can be traded, and how >> this can offset the situation whereby one encyclopedia can pay its >> authors while an other can't. Or in fact, one of the encyclopedias both >> pays the authors and gives attributes them for the work they do. >> >> John >> >> Gerard Meijssen skrev: >>> Hoi, >>> Ok let me rephrase my question, what would the benefit be to the reader ? >> In >>> my opinion there is no benefit. The fact that this information can be >> found >>> in the history data is sufficient. There is no obvious way who to include >>> and why. For instance there are some who do not rate the person who >> includes >>> an illustration while the person who created the illustration is >>> considered.. Really, you open a can of wurms and there is no clear and >>> obvious benefit. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> 2009/2/26 Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> >>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen >>>> <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Hoi, >>>>> What would you achieve by doing that and, what would it mean for our >> down >>>>> stream users ? In my opinion this is not where we want to go at all. >>>> What it would achieve is that the reader has more of an idea who wrote >>>> what he is reading. The consequence for our downstream users seems >>>> little - depending on the exact form we use it is nothing, something >>>> extra to include or something extra to decide on whether to include or >>>> not. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> foundation-l mailing list >>>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l