Extension:Contributors

The Contributors extension provides an includable special page which summarises the most prominent contributors to an article. The page can be accessed as a normal special page, or included into other pages to provide an automated list, which is useful for attribution.

Requirements
The Contributors extension requires MediaWiki 1.8.0 or above.

Installation

 * 1) Check out all extension files from Subversion and place them in a Contributors subdirectory within your MediaWiki extensions directory
 * 2) Add the line   to your LocalSettings.php file

Installation can be verified through the Special:Version page on the wiki.

Usage
The list can be accessed as a conventional special page, or through inclusion into another page.

Special page
The special page is located at Special:Contributors and provides an interface to select an article. You can also access this page using the "main contributors" link in the toolbox when viewing an article; the results for that page will be shown.

Inclusion
You can include a list of names into another page using the inclusion mechanism, e.g.



will produce a list of the most prominent contributors to Article.

Output criteria
This extension lists "prominent contributors" to a page. The default behaviour will show all contributors, in order of number of edits, if the number of contributors is ten or less. Once the limit is hit, contributors with over two edits will continue to be listed. Contributors who are not listed are acknowledged as "X others".

These limits can be changed:


 * $wgContributorsLimit defines the "intelligent cut-off" limit (default 10)
 * $wgContributorsThreshold defines the edit threshold for additional users (default 2)

Change log
A complete log of changes to the extension code (including internationalisation updates from third parties) is available from the Subversion log, however, summarised information on changes between point releases is given below:

Other Extensions
Extension:DynamicPageList can produce lists of revision history for multiple articles. It can be combined with Extension:Ploticus to produce 'scattergrams' which show who edited certain articles (see Scatter Demo 2).