[OGDev] Who edited what

[Chris Prather]

On Apr 26, 2007, at 5:52 AM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:37:54AM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
>> There was discussion here recently about getting some author
>> attribution into the data. I remain opposed to the idea until we have
>> logins, but should that happen, I'd be all for it also showing up on
>> the page itself, as Wikitravel does it. Example:
>>
>> http://wikitravel.org/en/Montreal
>>
>> Scroll down to the page footer to see what I mean.
>
> I agree that this would be nice but I'd be interested on your  
> rationale
> for only wanting it after logins are implemented.
>
> Dominic.

I suspect because without true logins (via OpenID or something) the  
attribution is meaningless. Anybody can put anything into the "Who am  
I" page and credit their edits to whomever they please. At least with  
OpenID or some form of login system you can only credit to accounts  
you've authorized against.

-Chris