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The external [http://vs.aka-online.de/wppagehiststat/ Page History Stats] tool can help you identify the principal authors.

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The external [https://xtools.wmflabs.org/authorship Authorship] tool can help you identify the principal authors.

Reasoning: ~~the tool at aka-online.de appears to be broken,~~ the Authorship tool runs on WMF servers, and the Authorship tool appears to be more suited for the task.

Thanks! — hike395 (talk) 14:23, 1 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Done — xaosflux ^Talk 13:20, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I run a Donkey Kong Wiki that uses the GFDL, and I was wondering if the Wikipedia disclaimer at the bottom of the Banjo-Pilot article was implemented properly. 2005-Fan (talk) 14:26, 13 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @2005-Fan, I'm no lawyer nor even a self-taught expert, but I looked at https://www.dkwiki.org/Banjo-Pilot#Disclaimer plus a few non-Wikipedia pages such as https://www.dkwiki.org/King_K._Rool#Disclaimer (via Special:Random page), and it looks okay to me, based on what I've heard in the past. While of course editors can't offer you legal advice (and you shouldn't trust them, if they did!), the text box at the bottom that attributes the content with a link containing the date allows people to view the copy and authorship of the material up to that date, and that seems reasonable to me.

(I'm not sure why there is also the line "Note: 151.16.238.197 plagiarized some content from a July 29, 2008 revision of the Wikipedia article without attributing." This is probably not technically required because plagiarism isn't a copyright/license question, but also, AFAICS, no harm done if you want to include it.) WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thank you for your response. I included that note because I try to add meta-notes when reusing from GFDL, for history's sake. The "from before DATE" links to https://www.dkwiki.org/DK_Wiki:Acceptable_sources , which shows links corroborating to the statement of when the license change occurred.

When you say "up to that date" do you mean content prior to the day of the license change? 2005-Fan (talk) 18:22, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I mean that "The list of authors can be seen in the page history" shows the page history before 14 July 2009. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:25, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]