License for group of authors on a blog
Evan Prodromou
evan at wikitravel.org
Sun Jul 18 23:24:30 EDT 2004
Jim Cheetham wrote:
> I had a quick review of their musings, and while interesting they missed
> what for me is the biggest point about a wiki - the multiple authorship.
It's a fascinating issue and one close to my heart.
I tend to take a temporal model of Wiki authorship. That is, I think
each version of a wiki page is a Work which is a Derivative Work of the
previous version. This seems to simplify things a lot, especially
compared to the spatial model (this is my paragraph, this is your
sentence, this is his punctuation mark), or a joint authorship model
(everyone works together to make a work).
> I can't see how to satisfy the Attribution of a document that has had
> multiple authors, some anonymous, some pseudonymous, and some
> identifiable/contactable.
We do this with MediaWiki. The wording goes something like, "Last edited
by X, with contributions by Realname Person1 and Realname Person2,
ThisWiki users Pseudo3 and Pseudo4, and anonymous users of ThisWiki."
> Perhaps the wiki back-end changelog maintains the attributions for me,
> but not all wikis preserve the changelog when you backup/restore.
>
> Ideas welcome ...
Use a wiki engine that preserves back-end changelogs when you backup and
restore. B-)
~ESP
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