Am Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:19:29 -0500 schrieb Benjamin Fritz: > What about removing the name entirely? I thought, since this is a > wiki, that attributing any single tip to a person is a daunting task > (since anybody can and should change it at any time). If we really > want to clean up all the imported tips, we'll need to do some heavy > modifications to some of them, and people will be adding and > deleting content all the time. This is especially true for when we > merge two (or more!) imported tips together.
> The final product is the result of several original contributers > (the original post and all the comments) as well as the effort put > in by the person doing the merge. If you're changing the tip > template anyway, why not just keep it closer to the intent of the > wiki? The link to the original tip will (I assume) still remain if > anybody is interested in its origins. Very good points. Especially the last is a killer argument (as long as the old tips are available). But it is important to credit volunteer work, so we would have to look for other ways to credit them, or at least give the chance to do so. In OSS projects there are often "AUTHORS" files to credit contributors and avoid the problems that you described above. So we should look for something to credit ppl. E.g. Do you know these? * http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Editcount?username=JohnBeckett * http://wikistats.wikia.com/EN/TablesWikiaVIM.htm#wikipedians I think this could encourage ppl. What else could we use? My conclusion: remove emails and adresses, state in policy that we don't want them on the pages, refer to other mechanisms for credits. Sebastian. _______________________________________________ Vim-l mailing list Vim-l@wikia.com http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/vim-l
