Multiple authors for single article

[peterdesmet]

I would like to add multiple authors to a single article. Using Markdown, I tried comma-separate authors in my article metadata (like you can do with tags):

Tags: tag1, tag2
Authors: author1, author2

But this generated a link to author1-author2, instead of 2 links to the 2 author pages. Is there another way to do this and if no, are there any plans to support this feature?

[justinmayer]

Hi Peter. I don't believe the behavior you describe is currently supported, and I'm not aware of any plans to implement it. That said, if you (or someone else in the community) can devise an elegant way to support such a feature, we would of course be open to pull requests.

[almet]

Implementing multiple authors is something that would be indeed
interesting. Some random thoughts:

• You would want to keep to compatibility with themes, so I suppose we
  would attach a new metadata to the content object (article, page),
  probably named "authors".
• content.author would fallback to either a list of authors or the
  first one defined.
• the new defined authors should be a list containing only one author
  if only one is provided.
• the new themes should be looking for .authors on the articles /
  pages rather than .author.

That's all I have in mind, hope that helps.

[almet]

A little first try, but it doesn't seem to be working as I want it to,
https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/compare/multiple-authors

Don't hesitate to continue working on this.

[peterdesmet]

Thanks for the response. Python is still very new to me though, so I don't have the skills to work on this (yet). 😐

[justinmayer]

Hi Peter. Any chance this is something you'd care to work on?

[peterdesmet]

Hi Justin, as mentioned before, my Python skills are minimal. But it might be something @bartaelterman (much better at Python than me) and I could have a look at. Can't promise much though.

[justinmayer]

Would be great to have your participation. As noted above, Alexis has provided a head start. Please keep us posted!

[justinmayer]

As noted above, this feature was implemented by @bubenkoff. Bravo!

[peterdesmet]

That's awesome! @bubenkoff you rock! 👍

[seawolff]

Currently getting this:

http://cl.ly/image/0H2b0o2e2I0q

[MartinThoma]

How should mutiple authors be written in the header? I am currently writing

Title: Paper Discussion Group
Category: Projekte
Date: 2015-12-02 17:30
Tags: Paper, Deep Learning, Autonomes Fahren
Authors: Marvin Teichmann, Martin Thoma

The article blablalbal adfasdf adsfasdf asd

However, when I look at the generated code, I see:

[...]
 <meta name="author" content="Marvin Teichmann" />
[...]

So only the first person appears there. I've expected:

[...]
 <meta name="author" content="Marvin Teichmann, Martin Thoma" />
[...]

Is this a bug? (I have Pelican 3.6.3).

[ingwinlu]

In the theme you used, yes

On 4 December 2015 at 11:01, Martin Thoma notifications@github.com wrote:

How should mutiple authors be written in the header? I am currently writing

Title: Paper Discussion Group
Category: Projekte
Date: 2015-12-02 17:30
Tags: Paper, Deep Learning, Autonomes Fahren
Authors: Marvin Teichmann, Martin Thoma

The article blablalbal adfasdf adsfasdf asd

However, when I look at the generated code, I see:

[...]

[...]

So only the first person appears there. I've expected:

[...]

[...]

Is this a bug?

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[MartinThoma]

I guess the relevant part is

{% if page.author %}
    <meta name="author" content="{{ page.author }}" />
{% else %}
    <meta name="author" content="{{ AUTHOR }}" />
{% endif %}

I've also found the themes docs docs and I guess it should be

{% if page.authors %}
    <meta name="author" content="{{ page.authors | join(',') }}" />
{% elif page.author %}
    <meta name="author" content="{{ page.author }}" />
{% else %}
    <meta name="author" content="{{ AUTHOR }}" />
{% endif %}

At least on a first glance, it seems to work.

What is the reason to use author and authors at the same time? Wouldn't it be better to have only authors so that people who write templates will see their mistake?