I'm just replying in general to the thread... In a hotel about to leave so no time for a long response. But I wanted to say that I always hated having my pages be anonymous. I don't do much editing of others' and when I do write a page it tends to take a lot of work and not having my name on it is discouraging. I saw all the arguments in the thread and wondered if anyone thought of simply having unlinked names? That would make it harder for random support emails while still giving credit.<br>
<br>Michelle<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Steve Dondley <<a href="mailto:sdondley@gmail.com">sdondley@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Someone reverted some documentation I submitted at<br>
<a href="http://drupal.org/node/262422" target="_blank">http://drupal.org/node/262422</a> which removed a credit attributed to<br>
myself and others for writing the documentation. I specifically placed<br>
the credit in there to point out a bad oversight on the part of d.o.<br>
which is that documentation writers receive little to no public<br>
recognition for their work.<br>
<br>
Giving public recognition to contributors will work to move people out<br>
of the "user" category and into the "contributor" column for a few<br>
reasons:<br>
<br>
1) It will cater to people's ego (yup, we all got 'em) to see their<br>
names in lights.<br>
3) Most contributors seek karma. The only way to obtain karma is to give credit.<br>
4) They might feel not sharing their talents while others freely share theirs.<br>
5) It reminds them that there are real people behind all the work at<br>
d.o. and that it doesn't just magically appear for them.<br>
<br>
Currently, you have to be a registered user and logged into view the<br>
revisions. Even when you are logged in, the revisions tab is barely<br>
clicked and only by those actually maintaining the documents.<br>
<br>
With this in mind, I recommend the following:<br>
<br>
1) A block down the side to give public recognition to all those who<br>
have contributed to the documentation (maybe sorted by the number of<br>
revisions).<br>
2) A link at the top of the block to the list of revisions with an<br>
encouragement for user to click there to admire the hard work of<br>
others.<br>
<br>
I think this is a modest change that hopefully won't take a lot of<br>
effort. I think the payoff would be big.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
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