Authorship credit
A Claim's authorship isn't fixed to whoever posted it first. Instead, it's a distributed weight split across everyone who's actually improved the claim over time:
- The original author.
- Anyone whose correction was merged into the claim.
- Anyone whose rebuttal won a debate exchange that shaped the claim.
This weight is recomputed automatically whenever the claim's history changes β a new merged correction, a reverted one, a won rebuttal all shift the split. You'll see this represented as an authorship bar on a claim's page, showing roughly how much of the current claim each contributor is responsible for.
The idea is simple: credit should track who actually made the claim better, not just who happened to post it first.