But here's the virtue of contributing to Wikipedia in the first place: anyone anywhere who wants to see who did what, will go to the actual Wikipedia and will find your credited contributions, regardless of the details in subsequent reproductions--as long as they know it's from Wikipedia.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing that has not been brought forward yet in this discussion, > and which I think is important, is that 'author' does not equate > 'editor'. It seems many here do go from that assumption in trying to > get the authors of an article. Suppose, an article has the following > edit history: > > A starts the page with some text > B adds some text to it > C notes that A's text was a copyright violation, and adds a template > to that effect > D removes all the text of the page (because A's text is a copyright > violations, and B's edits make no sense without it), and replaces it > by a translation from another Wikipedia > Some vandal vandalizes the page > E reverses the vandalism > F adds some interwikis > G corrects 2 spelling mistakes > H adds a paragraph > I adds a picture from Commons. > > The _editors_ of the page are A to I and the vandal. But are they also > the authors? I think not. In my opinion the _authors_ are D, H, the > authors of the translated article and the author of the picture. > > Having said that, my opinion on this is that I do want to be credited, > but only where my contributions are really major. Not where I made a > 'non-authorship' edit, and also not where I made a substantial but > still relatively small edit, for example adding one line to an already > extensive article. The first I don't consider authorship, and the > second I'd be more than happy to be credited as part of "wikipedia > editors". But where a page is essentially written by me with only > insubstantial (though useful) edits by others before and after, I do > want to see my name as the maker or one of the makers. Thus, I'd like > to see some credits similar to the "main credits place" in GFDL, where > a few of the major authors are mentioned, plus "other Wikipedia > editors" or something similar. > > -- > André Engels, [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
