On Thursday 22 January 2009 19:52:28 Thomas Dalton wrote: > > Requirement would be to give credit via the credit URL, and by mentioning > > the principal authors listed at that URL. What authors will be listed at > > that URL is something that we may change at our leisure: for example, > > this may be the proposed list of five authors, or none if more than five; > > or it may be a list of authors that is no longer than 1% of the length of > > the article, or none of longer; or, when appropriate software is > > developed, the list of principal authors as recognised by the software; > > it may even differ from project to project, for example Wikisource may > > choose to credit the authors manually (it is already doing something > > similar); and so on and so forth. > > Any system other than crediting everyone or crediting no one requires > choosing people. How do you propose that to be done? And why doesn't > the person that contributed the 6th most text (say) not deserve to be > credited for their work?
I don't agree with that; I do believe that every author with significant (copyrightable) contribution should be credited. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
