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Check this answer -- originally authored by me with minor changes by Peter Mortensen. It shows 56% authorship by Peter when he only contributed 27 characters.
Should "Developer Testing" be folded into a more general "Programmers" site?
Diff-algorithm kicks in even when changes made by one of the editors are completely rolled back:
Current diff algorithm makes CW posts look like contributors have been abducted by aliens.
Line breaks may be all that matters for Klingons, but human beings are used to believe that character count, well, counts.
It is well known that rolled back changes are considered valuable contribution at Alpha Centauri, but we at Planet Earth tend to think otherwise.
A workaround to force Klingon diff display a major contributor as an author (tested here) is for the user to add then remove a dummy text with sufficient amount of line breaks:
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CW attribution algorithm work-around:
See http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/65541
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit...
...put sufficient amount of lines here
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