[drupal-docs] authors and time stamp

[Charlie Lowe]

Dries Buytaert wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 

Just saw that. Great :)

Here's an idea. How about a semi-automatic solution? Let people add 
themselves in as a book contributor by updating their user profile for 
"I contributed documentation." Then have that page created directly from 
the profile module information.