Hm, MediaWiki makes it hard to attribute a part of text to a user—this makes asking someone about their reasons for adding something difficult, and perhaps encourages deletionism?
@niplav No citations?
@Paradox …not sure what you mean. I'm talking about attributing a specific part *of the article text* to the user that wrote it, which is orthogonal to the citations it contains, right?
@Paradox There is - http://wikipedia.ramselehof.de/wikiblame.php but UX is, uh, questionable
@niplav
I don't know what this is designed to do. I was just thinking you could put a regular citation in the text and say "credit to BlueLagooner" in the references section.
Unless I misunderstand something.
@Paradox yeah, Wikipedia editors usually don't do that :-)
@niplav A little bit, I guess. I understand now that you want to attribute contributors to the text, which is different from attributing sources of the text's content.