2009/1/22 Erik Moeller <[email protected]>: > This is a constructive and useful proposal, thank you. > > I agree with Milos when he states in another thread that we need to > think further about a solution that is satisfactory to a greater > number of people, at least when it comes to standardizing attribution > requirements with effective application to all past edits ever made. > (At minimum, I would like some more data to inform our decisions.) I > also believe that the Wikimedia Foundation can responsibly and > reasonably determine what attribution model it wants to apply going > forward. >
So what exactly is the problem with requiring credit "reasonable to the medium or means"? > For example, if WMF decides that a guaranteed by-name attribution is > not reasonable, scalable, and detrimental to the goals of WMF, it can > responsibly tell people that. It can however it would generally be expected that it provides a reason. A reason that is logically consistent with observed reality would probably be preferable. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
