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.
Conrad [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6785 On 11 September 2010 01:51, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Dan Nessett <dness...@yahoo.com> 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 state set, but it seems likely that could be >> achieved using an extension triggered when an article is edited. >> > Note that the page_props table is parser-owned. This means that > entries for a specific page are cleared and reinserted when a page is > reparsed. You should take that into account when using the page_props > table. > > I'm not sure if page_props is the correct way to go. Copyright is > associated to a specific text or image revision. Therefore, it seems > more obvious to put the licensing in the revision and image table and > their respective archive tables. > > > Bryan > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
