On 9/8/2010 10:18 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
Well, this is
probably my last post on this subject for now. I think
I've made my points. Those who don't get them yet probably will
continue not to get them, and those who get them but disagree
probably
will continue to disagree. It looks like not
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.
Con
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Dan Nessett 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 stat
On 11 September 2010 08:40, Robert Rohde wrote:
> In addition, if people are editing and changing attribution flags then
> there is a natural need to have version histories for license flags.
> In the existing system, this is accomplished by the revision histories
> of the pages showing changes in
Let me just say that getting licensing information in to a database
would definitely have advantages for Commons, Wikisource, and a
variety of third parties. It would also enable the development of
many potentially useful extensions to Mediawiki, such as creating
automatically updated attribution
