User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Sneak Peek at the New Look - Community Activity/@comment-872086-20100826144118

More about image attribution....

It maybe hasn't occurred to you that, if your intention is to encourage people to get involved, then there are some wikis where image attribution is likely to be counterproductive.

In any wiki where one or two people do almost all the pictures, if you put their name on them, then that means that just one person's name is going to be *everywhere*--giving the impression that it's "their" wiki People are likely to conclude that no one else should do any work on it (which, of course, isn't true, since wikis belong to everyone who uses them).

We want to *welcome* other fans to add stuff: few enough do so already as it is, which is one reason why most of the work is done by just a handful of people. I don't want any change that may actually *put off* new users from doing edits, adding their own images and pages, and so on.