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</div> </div> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> </div> <div class="vector-column-end"> <nav class="vector-page-tools-landmark vector-sticky-pinned-container" aria-label="Page tools"> <div id="vector-page-tools-pinned-container" class="vector-pinned-container"> </div> </nav> </div> <div id="bodyContent" class="vector-body" aria-labelledby="firstHeading" data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From IndieWeb</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-parser-output"><p><span class="p-summary"><b><dfn>authorship</dfn></b> is how to indicate who the <a href="/author" class="mw-redirect" title="author">author</a> is for a <a href="/post" title="post">post</a>, and an algorithm that determines the author of a <a href="/post" title="post">post</a>.</span> </p><p>See the specification to implement the algorithm: </p> <ul><li><a href="/authorship-spec" title="authorship-spec">authorship-spec</a></li></ul> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Why">Why</span></h2> <p>You should clearly indicate who is the author of a post so when other sites summarize or reply to your post, they can properly recognize the author(s)! </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="How_to_publish">How to publish</span></h2> <p><span id="How_to"></span> </p><p>Publishing your authorship of a post is designed to be both easy and flexible to adapt to a variety of publishing methods and designs. Any of the following are fine. </p><p>Choose whichever is the least work for you, your site, your theme(s), your code, and easiest for you to maintain! </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Authorship_for_individual_posts">Authorship for individual posts</span></h3> <p>For individual <b><a href="/posts" title="posts">posts</a></b>, (such as a post displayed on its <a href="/permalink" title="permalink">permalink</a>), you have a few options for how to provide authorship information. </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Full_author_information_in_each_post">Full author information in each post</span></h4> <p>If your posts have your name and photo already visible, then your <a href="/h-entry" title="h-entry">h-entry</a> for the post can include a full <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> with the complete author info for the post, by adding an explicit <code>p-author</code> or <code>u-author</code> property with an embedded <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a>, e.g. <code><a class="u-author h-card" href="/">…</a></code> </p><p>Example: </p> <pre><div class="h-entry"> <a href="/" class="u-author h-card"> <img src="/me.jpg" class="u-photo"> <span class="p-name">Author Name</span> </a> <div class="e-content">This is an example note</div> </div> </pre> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Author_information_in_a_header_or_footer">Author information in a header or footer</span></h4> <p>If you have an <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> on your website in a header or footer, you can avoid duplicating the author information inside the <a href="/h-entry" title="h-entry">h-entry</a> by establishing a link between the two: add a <code><a class="u-author" href="/"></a></code> inside your post h-entry (an invisible link to your home page), and ensure the <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> in your header or footer has a <code>url</code> property that also links to your home page. </p><p>Example: </p> <pre><div class="h-entry"> <div class="e-content">This is an example note</div> <a href="/" class="u-author"></a> </div> ... <footer> <a href="/" class="h-card"> <img src="/me.jpg" class="u-photo"> <span class="p-name">Author Name</span> </a> </footer> </pre> <p>(This example has a minimal <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> but you can include as many details in the h-card as you would like) </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Authorship_on_a_dedicated_page">Authorship on a dedicated page</span></h4> <p>See <a href="#Dedicated_author_page">#Dedicated author page</a> </p><p><br /> </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Authorship_for_streams_of_posts">Authorship for streams of posts</span></h3> <p>For a page with a <b><a href="/stream" title="stream">stream</a> of posts</b> (like on an <a href="/archive" title="archive">archive</a>, <a href="/homepage" title="homepage">homepage</a>, etc.), you may want to avoid duplicating authorship information on each individual post. </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Include_authorship_with_h-feed_markup">Include authorship with h-feed markup</span></h4> <p>If you have a top-level <a href="/h-feed" title="h-feed">h-feed</a>, then you can include a <code>u-author</code> property on that feed, either as a full <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> or referencing an h-card in the header or footer as described above. </p><p>Example: </p> <pre><div class="h-feed"> <a href="/" class="u-author h-card"> <img src="/me.jpg"> Author Name </a> <div class="h-entry"> <span class="e-content">This is an example note</span> </div> <div class="h-entry"> <span class="e-content">This is an example note</span> </div> </div> </pre> <p>(This example has a minimal <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> but you can include as many details in the h-card as you would like) </p> <h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Include_authorship_without_h-feed_markup">Include authorship without h-feed markup</span></h4> <p>If you don't have an <a href="/h-feed" title="h-feed">h-feed</a> and want to display your author info in your website header or footer, you will need to include an invisible <code>u-author</code> property in each <a href="/h-entry" title="h-entry">h-entry</a> that shares the same <code>url</code> property as your header or footer h-card. </p><p>Example: </p> <pre> <div class="h-entry"> <span class="e-content">This is an example note</span> <a href="/" class="u-author"></a> </div> <div class="h-entry"> <span class="e-content">This is an example note</span> <a href="/" class="u-author"></a> </div> ... <footer> <a href="/" class="h-card"> <img src="/me.jpg"> Author Name </a> </footer> </pre> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Dedicated_author_page">Dedicated author page</span></h3> <p>If you don't want to show any author information on your post permalinks or feed pages, you can create an <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> on your <a href="/home_page" class="mw-redirect" title="home page">home page</a> and link to it from an invisible <code>u-author</code> property in each post or feed. </p><p>Example permalink: </p> <pre><div class="h-entry"> <div class="e-content">This is an example note</div> <a href="/" class="u-author"></a> </div> </pre> <p>Home page: </p> <pre>... <div class="h-card"> <img src="/me.jpg" class="u-photo"> <a href="/" class="u-url p-name">Author Name</a> </div> ... </pre> <p>(This example has a minimal <a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a> but you can include as many details in the h-card as you would like) </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Validate">Validate</span></h2> <p>Try this <a href="/authorship_testing_tool" title="authorship testing tool">authorship testing tool</a> to validate your authorship markup - it will tell you how the authorship algorithm finds your author information on a permalink: </p> <ul><li><a class="external free" href="https://sturdy-backbone.glitch.me/">https://sturdy-backbone.glitch.me/</a></li></ul> <p>You can use the preview feature of <a href="/Monocle" title="Monocle">Monocle</a> to see if a feed or post will look good in a <a href="/reader" title="reader">reader</a>: </p> <ul><li><a class="external free" href="https://monocle.p3k.io/preview">https://monocle.p3k.io/preview</a></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="How_to_determine">How to determine</span></h2> <p>See <a href="/authorship-spec" title="authorship-spec">authorship-spec</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_Also">See Also</span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/authorship-spec" title="authorship-spec">authorship-spec</a></li> <li><a href="/discovery" title="discovery">discovery</a></li> <li><a href="/posts" title="posts">posts</a></li> <li><a href="/h-entry" title="h-entry">h-entry</a></li> <li><a href="/h-card" title="h-card">h-card</a></li> <li><a href="/rel-author" title="rel-author">rel-author</a></li> <li><a class="external free" href="https://sturdy-backbone.glitch.me/">https://sturdy-backbone.glitch.me/</a> – a testing tool by <span class="h-card" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/User:Www.svenknebel.de" title="User:Www.svenknebel.de">Sven Knebel</a></span> to check whether your authorship markup is working</li> <li>Why: Because heuristics will get it wrong, sometimes hilariously: <a class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/AlexanderRKlotz/status/1252389218514427909">https://twitter.com/AlexanderRKlotz/status/1252389218514427909</a> <ul><li>"Google Scholar has parsed this cafeteria lunch menu as an author list, and it's delightful" <a class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/AlexanderRKlotz">@AlexanderRKlotz</a> April 21, 2020</li></ul></li> <li><a class="external free" href="https://twitter.com/thornet/status/1475924019308371978">https://twitter.com/thornet/status/1475924019308371978</a> <ul><li>"“The meaning of authorship depends heavily on how we draw the boundaries of our selfhood.”<br /><br />Nice line from its footnotes." <a class="external text" href="http://michellethorne.cc/">@thornet</a> 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