craigdietrich
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10 years ago Great suggestion. This has come up a number of times. We have in place a top bar which mentions authorship in the event that someone authored a page that for some reason isn't marked as an author of the book (say, it's a comment page). Though, we don't have in place a mechanism for describing in a general way authorship of pages when there are multiple authors on the book.
We have provides this advantage using a custom-JS layer before, e.g., using highlights in the sidebar: http://dnaanthology.com/anvc/dna/entry-points . This works because the page author is revealed in the Scalar footer albeit it is hidden by default (and even if revealed, is pretty much out of the way).
We've experimented with placing the top bar on every page, but it was a bit in-the-way.
Curious if you have suggestions on a design direction to head towards? Thanks!
For books with multiple authors, it would be great to be able to see who authored what material, both on individual pages and in visualizations for the book. The information seems to be there in the edit history for individual pages. Though we know that a page will store an author as having edited the page even if she only made a typo correction, would be better to just include every author who "touched" a page/object and then perhaps allow for edits after the fact (some sort of "remove author from this page" option perhaps).