[OGDev] Who edited what

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:32:52PM -0500, Chris Prather wrote:
> 
> 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.

But the attribution already happens, on the page history. Putting
somewhere more useful doesn't fundamentally change anything. I really
think you're overstating the importance of strong login credentials.

Dominic.

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