Wikia - creating communities

Update: for performance reasons, the attribution feature has been removed until it is working better.

Each article on Wikia has an attribution section at the bottom of the article. This gives the user name of the last contributor to that page, and lists the other contributors in alphabetical order. Users who edit without logging in are credited together as "Anonymous user(s)".

[edit] Removing names

Because all editors are listed, there may be times when you want to remove the name of an editor. This shouldn't be done lightly, but offensive or vandals' user names can be deleted from the attribution section. This should never be done as part of an editing or community dispute.

To remove names, they can be listed with the code:

<remove_credits></remove_credits>

The name to be removed is placed between the two tags:

<remove_credits>name1</remove_credits>

Replacing "name1" with the name to be removed. Capitalisation of user names must be correct; remember "UserName", is not the same as "Username". Names with spaces should be written just as they are in user page titles: "User name" and not "User_name".

To add more names they can be listed between the same tags, separated with commas:

<remove_credits>name1,name2,name3</remove_credits>

This code can be placed anywhere on the page, but at the bottom is usually neatest. It will not show on the page when it is viewed normally. You can click "edit" or "view source" to see the list.

This will not remove the name of the user who edited most recently. If you want to remove that user's name, you should also revert their edit.

Bear in mind that names inside the remove credits tag will show up in search results. Therefore, if a user is using a particularly offensive name, it may be preferable to delete their edits from the page history instead.