On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 15:34 -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
At SELF I spoke with Spot about attribution in docs. The CC license
does
not specify the means in which we provide attribution for work we use in
our documentation. I'm specifically concerned about how to attribute work
that originates on the wiki that makes it into formal documentation.
I'd like to establish a standard for doing this. Does anyone have any ideas?
Specifically with regard to wiki additions, it would not be impossible
for either a plugin to assemble a list of names who contributed to beats
that became guides -- but there would need to be a set of rules so that
minor proofing edits (punctuation, spelling, rephrasing, etc.) were
identified in a different class from the main content contributions.
Anyway, the basic idea I have to simplify things is have a plugin which
generates a back-page on the wiki, say on a tab next to the "discussion"
back page (or drops a file somewhere, or whatever), that contains a list
of names with contribution category tags (edit, proofing, writer, etc.)
if possible. That list would be folded into the attribution page/section
of the formal documentation and we'd at least know who was involved in
writing what.
This may be too simple in theory and too complex to implement (that is,
a bad idea) but an idea it is, no less.
-Iwao