Thread:Talk:Files and licenses concept/Authors/reply (2)

An AuthorManager would imho be a feature request for later. For now the author-data is stored in the mw_author table so that we don't duplicate information and have an effecient way to get lists by one or more authors or licenses (since file_props only stores integers to mw_license or mw_author).

And this enables a future ability to edit an author once and have it reflect on all it's files. However I dont think an AuthorManager is required for the first working-proof-of-concept (there's no "user manager" either, although there is RenameUser..) - this AuthorManager would probably be an admin-only function (ie. to merge, or update authors in case something needs to be updated). but not something every uploader could do. (what are the usecases ? 'm open to new insights)