[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Steve Dondley]

Item 4 should have read:

4) They might feel guilty not sharing their talents while the see
others freely sharing theirs.

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Steve Dondley <sdondley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Someone reverted some documentation I submitted at
> http://drupal.org/node/262422 which removed a credit attributed to
> myself and others for writing the documentation. I specifically placed
> the credit in there to point out a bad oversight on the part of d.o.
> which is that documentation writers receive little to no public
> recognition for their work.
>
> Giving public recognition to contributors will work to move people out
> of the "user" category and into the "contributor" column for a few
> reasons:
>
> 1) It will cater to people's ego (yup, we all got 'em) to see their
> names in lights.
> 3) Most contributors seek karma. The only way to obtain karma is to give credit.
> 4) They might feel not sharing their talents while others freely share theirs.
> 5) It reminds them that there are real people behind all the work at
> d.o. and that it doesn't just magically appear for them.
>
> Currently, you have to be a registered user and logged into view the
> revisions. Even when you are logged in, the revisions tab is barely
> clicked and only by those actually maintaining the documents.
>
> With this in mind, I recommend the following:
>
> 1) A block down the side to give public recognition to all those who
> have contributed to the documentation (maybe sorted by the number of
> revisions).
> 2) A link at the top of the block to the list of revisions with an
> encouragement for user to click there to admire the hard work of
> others.
>
> I think this is a modest change that hopefully won't take a lot of
> effort. I think the payoff would be big.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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