https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21885
Summary: Textbooks need authors.
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Documentation
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: chris...@purdue.edu
Why isn't the author's real name attached to the sections of the textbook that
they have contributed? Anonymity, while viable for the interchange of pure
information, isn't viable for an area that hinges completely upon authority,
the textbook. The lack of an author leads to a lack of authority, and the lack
of authority leads to a lack of culpability for poor quality, lack of depth,
stylistic concerns, and misinformation. If indeed your mission is to create
viable, dynamic textbooks that reflect the current sum of human knowledge on a
subject, it cannot be anonymous and it cannot be open to everyone; in the realm
of knowledge on a topic, everyone isn't even remotely equal. If you continue to
forgo real names and deny the texts of any authority, wikibooks will continue
to be the seeming failure it is today.
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