2009/1/22 Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.yu>: > 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.
So what was all that about only crediting 5 authors, or a list of authors less than 1% of the article length, or whatever else? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l