[Proteopedia] Collaboration

[Dan Bolser]

2009/5/12 Eric Martz <emartz at microbio.umass.edu>:
> Thanks for the update and pep talk, Eran!
>
> At 5/12/09, Dan Bolser wrote:
>>
>> One suggestion that you may also like to consider is to change the
>> ContributionCredits Extension:
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContributionCredits with the
>> Contributors Extension: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Contributors
>> The difference being that the latter extension only lists the "prominent
>> contributors" to a page. From the above link: > "The default behaviour will
>> show all contributors, in order of number of edits
>
> I like this idea, Dan! If it is feasible to implement a mechanism to
> separate major from minor contributors, I am in favor -- I think it is a
> very good idea that will indeed foster collaboration.
>
> One technical point: For some of my pages, I build the page in a protected
> sandbox, then when it is finished, I copy the wikitext into the new
> permanent title all at once*. So the new page has only one edit by its
> initial author. If we implement the above idea, and if it is based on number
> of edits, I'd change my authoring strategy.

Well, we could base the distinction on edit size too (as that is
stored in the database along with the history). As with any system,
you could get people 'cheating', but I think it should be robust
enough to somehow correct for 'lots of small edits' vs. 'a few big
edits', etc.


Cheers,
Dan.


> -Eric
>
> *
> http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Sandboxes#Publishing_Your_Completed_Article
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