[drupal-docs] authors and time stamp

Dries Buytaert dries at buytaert.net
Sat Dec 11 08:29:06 UTC 2004


Charlie Lowe wrote:
> For the time being, I'd turn off the author and time stamp via the theme 
> config. Neither having the original author or the one who posted the 
> update is more accurate than the other.

Done.

> Note that the Wikipedia does not list the first or current author; in a 
> community authored text, that's not as important. In fact, I think it's 
> actually better not to list the "author" as the "owner" of a particular 
> piece of text; rather, maintain a "contributor" list. In other words, 
> the notion of "contributors" reflects the community effort of a 
> wiki-like text. And to list contributors for a given page of the text, 
> they all need to be listed since the contribution of each is important. 
> Not make a choice between the first or the most recent.

How about this http://drupal.org/node/14205 as a quick interim solution?

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