This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution have to relate to the exact contribution of each author.
A list of authors has been considered acceptable in the past (including on-wiki). Tom On 12 June 2012 23:48, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +0000, Mike Dupont wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no > one > > is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as > being > > from wikipedia. > > > You are very concientious, and normally this would indeed be adequate (not > perfect, > but definitely adequate :) > > It is adequate because wikipedia itself retains full attribution > information in > page history. One can follow the chain from the copy back to the wikipedia > original > back to the page history and voila, more than you ever wanted to know. > > The problem with deleted/hidden articles on en.wp is that the history > information > is also deleted/hidden; and therefore the attribution chain is broken. > > Attribution information is important for legal and open content reasons of > course. > > Is it possible to keep a copy of page history somewhere also? > > I know the mediawiki export/import functions support this, and work > via GET request. > see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export > > eg: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train > > sincerely, > Kim Bruning > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l