I actually suggested such a thing in another thread on this topic ^_^ It would require a monster search index (all revisions of all article text), but it wouldn't get a ton of use so wouldn't use too many resources.
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Brian <brian.min...@colorado.edu> wrote: > > I advocate a much more flexible attribution scheme than listing the > authors > > or printing a url to the history page. I think a simple (Wikipedia) is a > > sufficient attribution for text. If you have the text it is trivial to > find > > the original author of that text. It's not so trivial with images, but a > > link to the history page of an image can be embedded in its metadata. > > Could you implement a wikiblame extension? > That would make attribution much cleaner. > > SJ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
