Improve article attribution heuristic #380
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Make the attribution algorithm trace through the history
across file rename operations, but do not consider such operations as an
indication of contribution.
The compiled output is a single line of JSON, making it a bit tough to inspect.
Here's what I did to try it out:
Basically, it adds contributors who created/edited articles prior to 0fb17c3 (including yours truly) and removes contributors whose only interaction with an article was to move it (i.e. @rdworth in 0711375 and 7b49f82).