[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Angela Byron]

Steve Dondley wrote:
> 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.

I don't feel that my concerns raised in the other thread were adequately 
addressed, but I was redirected here, so...

Your initial proposal still requires code to be written, tested, and 
integrated into d.o. Who's going to write this code and do the necessary 
testing? Are you stepping up to take this on?

And, unless it has an opt-out/in feature of some sort, people like me 
are probably going to stop contributing to the handbooks because we're 
going to get inundated with e-mails from people asking for support on 
pages we wrote 2 years ago. Are you sure that's what you want?

And, if it has an opt-out/in feature, then it'll end up completely 
inconsistent across the handbook pages on the site and confuse our 
users, resulting in support requests that we have to divert resources to 
answering.

What's wrong with just having the revisions tab, again? So far, the only 
complaint I've seen is that anon users can't view it, which is likely 
done for performance reasons, but you could always start an issue in the 
webmasters queue to check.

-Angie