On 12/08/2011 10:31 PM, David Gerard wrote: > This one's tricky, because that's not free content, for good reason. > It would need to be present for correct attribution at the least. I > don't see anything intrinsically hard about that - have I missed > anything about it that makes it hard?
Well you'd need to have namespaces for username's, and that's about it. Or you could pursue something like OpenID as you mentioned. Of course if you used the user database "as is" and pursued my proposed model for content mirroring, you could have an 'Attribution' tab for mirrored content up near the 'Page' and 'Discussion' tabs, and in that page show a list of everyone who had contributed to the content. You could update this list from time-to-time, at the same time as you did your mirroring. You could go as far as mentioning the number of edits particular users had made. It wouldn't be the same type of "blow by blow" attribution that you get where you can see a log of specifically what contributions particular users had made, but it would be a suitable attribution nonetheless, similar to the attribution at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Version _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
