Kuma: Simplify display of contributors per page

[peterbe]

To quote @atopal from here

let's just replace the whole section with "last edited on xx by MDN contributors" and that links to the revision history. If someone can come up with a good use case for having the full list on the article page itself, we should consider that, but nothing comes to mind.

@chrisdavidmills Are you OK with that?

[peterbe]

I would suggest we only change the read-only site with this change. It makes the scope smaller and it makes more sense to have the list over on the wiki.

[peterbe]

I'm going to label this as performance-related because it would take a decent chunk of HTML and React state data out of the server-rendered pages.

[jmswisher]

I think the original motivation for the list of contributors was to raise their visibility, give credit, and make readers aware that MDN is a wiki. However, I think it was a done as a quick hack and never optimized. I don't think the motivations are strong enough to outweigh any performance hits it's causing.

[peterbe]

raise their visibility, give credit, and make readers aware that MDN is a wiki

It's definitely a fair reason to have it. If someone has put hard work into an edit, they deserve credit for it. We're proud of our community! But, perhaps there are other ways to do that. The "Document Revision History" exists if an individual wants to demonstrate their contribution on a resume at least. Perhaps there are better ways to celebrate contributions but it's also a delicate thing because celebrations can turn into a gaming thing which is worse.

[chrisdavidmills]

For the record, yes, I'm OK with trying this.

[atopal]

Okay, let's go ahead with this one

[escattone]

❤️ This is a great decision. It has always surprised me how much code we have on the server-side (involving caching, Celery, etc.) just to provide a list of contributors for each document page.