Make an option (on by default) to make contributors public/visible & pretty #326
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book info
related to the book info admin page, book metadata, or the relevant sections of a book's homepage
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related to the appearance of a book (its theme) and what a user can control without using custom CSS
Feature Description
Revamp/improve how we handle Contributors, to:
a) allow better/more complete data input
b) display contributors on the Book Info page
c) build a nice-looking contributor page by default
Among desired improvements:
a) Make the Description a rich text editor
b) add fields for: URL, Twitter, (other social media), ORCID ID, institution, other things?
c) enable upload of an author image/headshot
Feature Use Case
An important driver for contributing to OER and publishing on Pressbooks is public/social recognition for contributions. Currently Pressbooks handles this badly/not really at all. This should be addressed to help Pressbooks better reflect peoples' contributions to OER.
Among other things : contributors are not listed by default on the Book Info page, unless hacked into the description. Users wishing to have a contributor page create their own, and often they look crap.
Further, if done right, this could be valuable data to surface in the Directory (though note that we would likely have to rethink how we assess the unique identity of a user (ORCID would be a great way to do that -- ie if you have an ORCID listed in a Contributor page, we can find you, otherwise not).
Other Notes
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