all-contributors/allcontributors.org resource

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

The website and documentation for the All Contributors specification and GitHub bot, which recognizes all types of contributions to open-source projects, not just code. It hosts the specification, emoji key reference, and bot usage docs on allcontributors.org.

Use cases

• recognize non-code contributors in my project README
• add an all-contributors table to my repository
• automate contributor acknowledgements with a GitHub bot
• understand the all-contributors specification and emoji key
• document different contribution types like docs, design, and review
• set up the all-contributors bot for my open-source project

When to choose

• you want to acknowledge every kind of contribution (docs, design, mentoring, review) in an open-source project
• you need the official spec, emoji key, or bot documentation for all-contributors
• you want to foster community recognition beyond code commits

When to avoid

• you need CI tooling or code-quality automation rather than contributor recognition
• you want a standalone contributor analytics dashboard rather than a README-based spec
• you are looking for the bot implementation itself, which lives in a separate repository

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

documentation developer-tools developer-tools documentation all-contributors contributor-recognition open-source-governance documentation-site docusaurus github-bot acknowledgements open-source community web-server nodejs

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