Multiple authors for a post

[certik]

Currently one can specify a single author of a post using the author metadata field.

For post authored by multiple authors, there currently does not seem to be a way to specify that.

[ralsina]

Sorry about taking so long to acknowledge this issue, I have been busy.

This is a reasonable request, let's look into it a bit more:

• 👍 Metadata is arbitrary, you can add a "authors" field if you want
• 👎 It's better if we standardize how that field would look
• 👎 It's not supported in the default templates. Do you know of any site using multiple authors per post and like how it looks?
• 👍 There is support for multiple authors in docutils if we used document's metadata (no idea how well that works)

So, let's talk about it.

[certik]

I switched to Hugo, so here is an example of my blog post:

https://lfortran.org/blog/2019/04/why-we-created-lfortran/

You can see multiple people in the authors section, and here is how I did it:

https://gitlab.com/lfortran/web/www.lfortran.org/blob/66157184d69b01c57a576061e1c8b608c85539a5/content/blog/why-we-created-lfortran.md#L5

So perhaps Hugo thinks it's just one author, but I don't mind, as long as it looks good online.

[ralsina]

You could do exactly the same thing. Like copy & paste it :-) Closing then.

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On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 12:52 PM Ondřej Čertík ***@***.***> wrote: I switched to Hugo, so here is an example of my blog post: https://lfortran.org/blog/2019/04/why-we-created-lfortran/ You can see multiple people in the authors section, and here is how I did it: https://gitlab.com/lfortran/web/www.lfortran.org/blob/66157184d69b01c57a576061e1c8b608c85539a5/content/blog/why-we-created-lfortran.md#L5 So perhaps Hugo thinks it's just one author, but I don't mind, as long as it looks good online. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3252?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAAAMK2XFXXYW5TC2HHJN2LQDBEEJA5CNFSM4HF3DYAKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD3SIAVY#issuecomment-518291543>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAAMKYXJ55ZBS6TNSQHPGLQDBEEJANCNFSM4HF3DYAA> .

[certik]

Perfect!

[fadelkon]

Hey, sorry to comment on a closed issue, but the current solution does not work for me.
In a shared blog, where there is more than one person writing, and sometimes or often, the entries are co-authored, then, the /authors special page is not useful. The simplest case:

Ann: how to code in fortran
Ben: using jupyter notebook
Ann & Ben: exploring LFrotran together

Then, I expect that in authors/ann and in authors/ben, there are 2 articles in each.
Is this something that I could change from a template?

[ralsina]

Metadata is arbitrary you could just have author1 / author2 / author3 and so on and just fix the post template to support that El vie., 28 de agosto de 2020 8:41 p. m., fadelkon <[email protected]> escribió:

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Hey, sorry to comment on a closed issue, but the current solution does not work for me. In a shared blog, where there is more than one person writing, and sometimes or often, the entries are co-authored, then, the /authors special page is not useful. The simplest case: Ann: how to code in fortran Ben: using jupyter notebook Ann & Ben: exploring LFrotran together Then, I expect that in authors/ann and in authors/ben, there are 2 articles in each. Is this something that I could change from a template? — You are receiving this because you modified the open/close state. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3252 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAAMK6LT3REOQQQ3DD55M3SDA6ANANCNFSM4HF3DYAA> .

[fadelkon]

I understand this, but how can I do it so that I can have "author pages" that for each author, the "shared posts" are credited to each author?

If I used author2, then author page will miss the post.

In the other hand, if I populate author with Ann & Ben and interpret it from my template so that it shows pretty, still, the author pages index will show Ann, Ben and Ann & Ben. I don't want to create "combination authors" like that. I only want 2 authors, Ann and Ben. In my case, we are more than 2 authors, and the possible combinations are too many.

EDIT:
I've been reading the source code and understand that it's explicitly not supported.

nikola/nikola/plugins/task/authors.py

Line 41 in 433b3b1

more_than_one_classifications_per_post = False

How many pieces should I copy If I wanted to create a modified copy of the authors classifier into, let's say, some multiple_authors one? I imagine it that it would read an hypothetical "authors" field (in plural), or just use "author" and replace the current classifier, via a config option.

EDIT2:

To be clear: with "author pages" or "author index" I am referring to this feature:

# If ENABLE_AUTHOR_PAGES is set to True and there is more than one
# author, author pages are generated.
ENABLE_AUTHOR_PAGES = True

[ralsina]

Good point. Yes, you are right. Sadly, the authors plugin is fairly convoluted. I don't promise anything since I am mostly retired from open source, but I will try to take a look.

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On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:07 PM fadelkon ***@***.***> wrote: I understand this, but how can I do it so that I can have authors index page that for each author, the "shared posts" are recognized too? If I used author2, then author index won't read it. Similarly, if I populate author: Ann & Ben and interpret it from my template, the author index will show Ann, Ben and Ann & Ben. I don't want to create "combination authors" like that. — You are receiving this because you modified the open/close state. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3252 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAAAMK65TF2EZ3RYXDUVB2LSDBIFNANCNFSM4HF3DYAA> .

[Kwpolska]

I tried to solve this, and it’s a fairly easy fix (that can be backwards-compatible). See PR #3456 (please test and review).