> Is the code available and I have missed it? Do we have any other > implementation?
I tried to do something similar (two examples are at http://mormegil.info/wp/blame/AIM.htm http://mormegil.info/wp/blame/AFC_Ajax.htm); the code is nothing secret, even though it is not too clean, and there is also no rocket science [you have been warned: https://opensvn.csie.org/traccgi/MWTools/browser/MWTools/trunk/PageBlame]: The biggest problem I see with such tools is that it is IMHO unusable for any copyright-related purposes. My tool works by diffing the article revisions and tracking who was the last author of every word. Even though you can be much smarter than that, I don't believe you would be able to track all copyright-relevant contributions with that. As an example, consider using that tool on an article that was created by: 1. Importing an article with all its history from the English Wikipedia to some other-language wiki. 2. Translating it into the local language (for more fun, imagine a language using a different script, e.g. Russian, or even Chinese) There is IMHO no way the blame tool could track copyright properly through the translation (which it has to, copyright-wise). And even in the general case, I believe such tracking would be an AI-hard task (often, even a human is unable to do it properly…). Of course, such Blame tools are great for many reasons (which is why I wrote them), but I think the current context (license change, attribution etc.) does not fit them at all. -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
