[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Greg Knaddison - GVS]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Steve Dondley <s at dondley.com> wrote:
> The proposal is really just to "be more public about giving credit".
> That's all I'm saying. No one should be opposed to that.

You say "no one should be opposed" and yet Nancy (78 book pages and
hundreds of revisions contributed) and Webchick (55 pages and hundreds
of revisions contributed) have concerns about the idea as you
presented it.

We have http://drupal.org/node/14205  and perhaps that could be
highlighted a little more to give people more attention.  I once wrote
a query and put it in the issue queue or on some email list (this was
maybe 2 years ago) that showed the number of book revisions that
people had created as a way to give credit for revisions in addition
to new pages which could perhaps be added as well.

I agree with you that giving highly visible credit for our
documentation contributors is a great idea to help inspire more people
to do it.  I think there are valid reasons not to do it on the page
itself.  If you (or someone else) wanted to write a "documentation
people of the month" and add it to the newsletter I'm sure it would be
well received.  That is one of many options for the ultimate goal of
highlighting the work done by handbook contributors.

It's also worth noting that the Wikipedia project works pretty well
giving credit on a separate tab.

Regards,
Greg

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