A quick suggestion for Pages databases that are intended for collaborative works (such as a ‘wiki’ style section). While having a single Author and a hard ‘published’ date makes sense for something like static news/feature articles and records, it doesn’t make a ton of sense for evolving online documents. For things like that, it would be good to have a shortlist of ‘contributors’ who have each edited the record in some way, so that members of the community can individually be credited for collaborative work (you could even work achievements into this somehow, but that’s getting ahead of this specific suggestion).
The author link could instead lead to a popup modal that lists all contributors (the top 3 or so could be specifically highlighted in an ‘avatar stack’ to the side), and the date could instead show the last edited time/date. Mockup below for illustrative purposes:
comment_292A quick suggestion for Pages databases that are intended for collaborative works (such as a ‘wiki’ style section). While having a single Author and a hard ‘published’ date makes sense for something like static news/feature articles and records, it doesn’t make a ton of sense for evolving online documents. For things like that, it would be good to have a shortlist of ‘contributors’ who have each edited the record in some way, so that members of the community can individually be credited for collaborative work (you could even work achievements into this somehow, but that’s getting ahead of this specific suggestion).
The author link could instead lead to a popup modal that lists all contributors (the top 3 or so could be specifically highlighted in an ‘avatar stack’ to the side), and the date could instead show the last edited time/date. Mockup below for illustrative purposes:
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