[documentation] Contributors to docs need more public recognition

[Steve Dondley]

You are the 3rd person who has cited a concern for more unsolicited
help as a reason to not be listed in a more public way. Perhaps a
setting in your profile which would explicitly exclude you from the
contributions list could be made.

One metric is to list the number of changes a person has made. But I
think it's more important just to get the name up there, regardless of
how small the contribution.

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 2:03 AM, Joshua Brauer <joshua at brauerranch.com> wrote:
> I fear this breaks down all too quickly with a community written document
> and site. Who should get more credit the person who first posted the page,
> the person who edited it to correct the major error and make it actually
> usable, the one who added the examples that really bring people to the page,
> the person who edits the document to conform to the documentation standards,
> the person who edits the punctuation to make it more readable or the person
> who edits the run-on sentences from pages? :)
>
> In all seriousness it is very hard to really accurately describe who did the
> "heavy lifting" on many pages, especially those that get a lot of love.
>
> And while I'm a bit further down the list than Angie or Nancy I'd also say I
> don't want to be listed on the top, bottom or side of any page and while I
> likely would have relished this when I was starting out it simply would
> generate way too much traffic from folks who I can't possibly respond to and
> would in the long run perpetuate a feeling that the Drupal community are a
> bunch of unresponsive folks. Further I fear that even with the ability to
> turn the attribution off for my account that the number of people editing
> documents and posting things to see their names appear on many pages would
> make the signal to noise ratio in the documents such that I would have far
> less time to spend working in the community. I'm quite happy with the
> ability of anybody who makes a small effort to view my contributions.
>
> Josh
>
> On May 25, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Steve Dondley wrote:
>
>> This would be another step in the right direction. Even just a simple
>> link to this page on every documentation page that said:
>>
>> "This page was written by one of these fine volunteers...you can
>> help!" with a link to this contributor's page. And then you could put
>> a link to the revisions page so even anonymous users could see who
>> contributed. It should state clearly: "See who contributed to this
>> page".
>>
>> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Peter Wolanin <pwolanin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Once D6 hits drupal.org, this page will be more infromative (due to
>>> book module fix), and perhaps can be given higher exposure:
>>> http://drupal.org/node/14205
>>>
>>> -Peter
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>>>
>>
>>
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>



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