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"Co-authored" tag?

Zyn 14 May 2015 00:27

So I was wondering… do we have a record of all the articles on the site that have been written as a collaboration between two (or more, idk if any threesome-written pages exist) authors?

If not, would it be feasible to implement a "co-authored" tag? I know Project Foundation was going to have a mechanism for equal crediting, but I'm more interested in having a record of the articles that were jointly-written.

I feel like all the digging we'd need to do is just go through author pages and double-check discussion pages (I'm genuinely curious, so I'm volunteering here to do some of that).

Thoughts?

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Crayne 14 May 2015 06:28

Not sure what the use of that tag would be? Since it doesn't tell you who collaborated, it would essentially tell you nothing.

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anqxyr 14 May 2015 06:54

This. Implementing something like what I've talked about in this post would be a better approach, I think.

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Zyn 14 May 2015 15:07

Since it doesn't tell you who collaborated, it would essentially tell you nothing.

It would tell you that the article is the work of two or more authors working together from the start, as opposed to a rewrite or a translation or a regular single-author article?

Also, to anqxyr, what about people who have no access to chat?

Basically, I'm just looking for a way to let people see how many articles are jointly-written works, and which articles those are.

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Decibelles 14 May 2015 00:43

I support. I already know of a fair amount that are co-authored, so I can help too.

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LurkD 14 May 2015 19:22

I'm sure mentioning it as the first or second post of the discussion thread serves the same purpose, but I'm guessing you want to make them searchable. Really, to accomplish that outside of incredibly ingenious methods of programming that are beyond me, you'd need a tag for each author. Which is an option that I'm certain nobody is willing to consider.

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Zyn 15 May 2015 01:04

I'm just looking for a way to search for articles that were planned joint works, not specific to authors or anything. Just something that could spit out a list of articles that were written by more than one author (not rewrites or translations or open logs).

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Doctor Cimmerian 15 May 2015 01:27

I know I've brought this up before, but I would feel remiss not to point out here that this would be an excellent tool to have. At the very least it would help in the matter of cataloging this type of article.

Sharing credit should be easier. At least a co-authored tag would allow for that in a decentish way.

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anqxyr 15 May 2015 06:53

So, after talking to Zyn in chat, turns out there's way more co-authored articles than I thought. In light of that, I now support this tag, on its own but ideally in addition to the proposed changes to the author override page. The way I image it would work is, people would use the tag to quickly lookup the co-authored articles, or they'll see the tag after reading a random article, and they'll know that this article has more than one author. And then, if they want, they can go to the author override page and search for this article to see its authors.

Actually, now that I think of it, the later case is even more important. If someone wants to see all coauthored articles, they could look them up on the author override page anyway without the tag. But if someone is just reading a random article, there's no way for the reader to know that it's coauthored without the tag. So yeah, I think the tag is warranted.

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Drewbear 15 May 2015 17:35

I support a co-authored tag. We have plenty of them, certainly more than would be necessary to warrant a new attribute tag.

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djkaktus 15 May 2015 18:36

Somebody mentioned last night that we also have a "collab" tag. I think this one would be much more useful, so yeah, I also support the addition of this tag.

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Dr Reach 15 May 2015 19:54

Wholeheartedly supported.

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thedeadlymoose 15 May 2015 21:48

We have a … very large number indeed of co-written articles (hell, SCP-093 is co-written between NekoChris and the original author of the original documentation, just to name a famous example). So yeah; while the Technical Team has final say over this, I do support it.

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Sophia Light 17 May 2015 05:40

Seems like a good idea to me.

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