Remove "by [original author]" on documentation pages

I'd actually like to remove the author information completely as per #1946268: Rethink the documentation UI.

Or if we keep it, push it down below the content that people came to see.

The author & date is no longer displayed. Probably removed during the upgrade to d7.

Edit: The Author & date is shown, example https://drupal.org/node/310075

Is this issue still upto date? I look at the links and they show Crell the original author.

This is actually a bug. Not sure what is going on.

Maybe not a bug as such, https://drupal.org/node/310086 has an author of 'solotandem', not Crell, so it looks like it's just that the author on the node doesn't match up to the author of the first revision.

Maybe something just got corrupted along the way, or there was a bug at some point, but there doesn't look to be much we can do here without going through all nodes, and comparing author to the first revision and making updates.

It sounds like we want to remove this, updating the title.

I recommend not worrying about the seemingly-inconsistent data. If I recall correctly, D6 would overwrite the node table's uid; this was noticed quite a bit for issue nodes. And the issue is removing it anyway.

The code that renders this on documentation pages is at http://cgit.drupalcode.org/drupalorg/tree/drupalorg_handbook/drupalorg_h...

Great, I made an issue summary as well. It looks like D7 is also causing problems -- since this original report, the page that was used as an example has a different "original author" shown.

Here is an untested patch to do this. We'll need to try it out on a dev site. What it does is:
- Remove the "orginal author" section on the first line
- Make it so that the revision editor list can include the person who is currently listed as the "original" author, so we should have the most recent 4 revision authors shown.

To test:
- Apply this on a dev site
- Cross-check a few pages: the display of "Edited by" should match the most recent 4 authors of revisions if you go to the Revisions tab on the page.

OK, I applied this patch to the docs_manage dev site, which was still active.

It looks like the dev sites do not have node revisions in their databases, which made this a bit difficult to test properly, but I logged in as bacon and made a revision on this page:
https://docs_manage-drupal.redesign.devdrupal.org/documentation/modules/...
and both the original author (as shown by the Revisions log on the dev site) and bacon are now showing up in the "Edited by" list.

So I think this patch is probably fine. I'll take the liberty of marking it RTBC; it's pretty simple.

Further testing: I used drush uli on the dev site to log in as user 1 (Dries) and then as myself, and then as drumm, and made further revisions with all 3 of these users.

The page is now showing:

Last updated October 6, 2014. Created on May 30, 2009.
Edited by drumm, jhodgdon, Dries, bacon. You can edit this page, too.

So this is working correctly -- those are the last 4 edits. During the process I checked and at each step the last 4 (or less) were showing (including the original author).

So I think it is fine.

I also committed an update to the comment.

Now deployed on Drupal.org.

Thanks!

Please re-analyze this.

• I wrote nearly all of https://www.drupal.org/node/919448 and created it, despite the db error, (as well as that whole project handbook) and my name is now wiped off.
• I wrote nearly none of https://www.drupal.org/requirements/php and have also had my name removed.

These two scenarios are not the same.

1. "In some cases the wrong author is shown."
2. "In other cases it is a bit too much honour because the original author was the one that only created the placeholder."

Both of these problems deserve a solution. A wholesale removal of original authors is an expedient path around both and runs over people like me.

You have not lost any honor -- the record of your work is still in the Revisions tab, as well as on your user profile in the "Your posts" tab.

There are other reasons for the Documentation Working Group deciding to make this change, and I'm sorry that we didn't articulate them well in this issue. Keep in mind that this is the *community documentation* section. We are continually having trouble with people not being willing to edit pages, so we want to emphasize that no one "owns" pages, and that everyone is encouraged to edit them. We also don't really want to encourage people to create even more pages than we already have -- we'd rather have them edit existing pages than create more spaghetti. So, we thought hard about this -- the concerns listed here were not the only ones we considered.

Hmm... So, in 2014, this project's approach toward improving its UI and user encouragement is for, on occasion, those who work most on a community's document to only have a mention tucked away in a revisions tab (with no assurance of accuracy), instead of among each of its contributors, as well as somewhere on an unspecified page listing everything else they did. 'Fixed'?

would #2332855: Maintainership for Documentation pages and sections help?

Cathy, that seems like it would help ongoing work. This case seems more about an accurate portrayal of work in any time period. I believe these two issues would help improve UI/UX, what do you think?: #2357059: Mention all contributors in handbooks & #2357045: Restore original node authors.