[AktiviX-discuss] [Fwd: Re: License for group of authors on a blog]
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Mon Jul 19 22:41:57 UTC 2004
referring to:
https://wiki.aktivix.org/AktiviX:Copyrights
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> From: Evan Prodromou <evan at wikitravel.org>
> To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: License for group of authors on a blog
> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:24:30 -0400
>
> 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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