On 11 September 2010 08:40, Robert Rohde <raro...@gmail.com> 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 templates. This isn't ideal (for > example the history of license changes isn't easily searchable), but > it does fill a critical need. One could create a new log of > attribution changes, but it's effectiveness would be limited unless > one can see and revert to the attribution as it existed in the past > (which is not a feature generally enabled by logs).
Perhaps something like how the interface for file revisions works - that is, a licensing-history tab (or somesuch ?) with state links, change data, diff links, and "revert to" buttons? But yes, this would be quite distinct from normal logs. :-) The opportunities such a system would potentially give would be hugely cool e.g. in-line automatic RDFa hooks on the licensing of images on-page (and in-text, though I think community members for WMF wikis might complain), or "only let me see the actually free bits of this wiki", excluding the non-free components. James -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
