Extension:Contributors

The Contributors extension provides an includable special page which summarizes 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.

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.

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



You can also create a template with the following code on it, and add it to your articles.



will produce a list of the most prominent contributors to  .

Sorting
By default, the list is sorted by number of edits, in descending order. It is possible to sort by user name and to switch the order to ascending. This is done with a parser function. For example:



This switches the sort to be alphabetical by user name, ascending. These options are also available at  .

Parameters
Doesn't affect the Special page, which is always linked. (default  )
 * links the user names to their User page.

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:


 * defines the "intelligent cut-off" limit (default  )
 * defines the edit threshold for additional users (default  )

Change log
A complete log of changes to the extension code (including internationalisation updates from third parties) is available from git. However, summarized information on changes between point releases is given below. Each point release is tagged in git.