On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/7/24 Brian <[email protected]>: > > In that case they can highlight the attribution and press backspace! > > Sure, but we shouldn't make it unnecessarily difficult for people to > reuse our content and tidying up after our crude attempt to force > attribution would qualify as unnecessarily difficult. > I believe the alternate usability interpretation is more persuasive. That by law they are required to provide attribution and yet many users are totally unaware a) that they are required to provide attribution b) that a "free" encyclopedia cares about attribution in the first place and c) of the specifics of providing attribution. If we consider the burdens that I have just outlined as compared with the burden of highlighting and deleting some text its clear that automatically solving the 90% case for users is the correct thing to do. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
