Wiki: Issue Credits Directive

The {{IssueCredits ...}} directive displays magazine issue contributors in author-defined groups. Featured groups stay visible; other groups can be expanded by the reader and start closed unless Open=true is specified.

Complete example

{{IssueCredits
Group=Editor-in-Chief |#| Featured=true
|~| Name=[Anna Wintour](/anna-wintour)
|~| Group=Editorial Leadership
|~| Role=Creative Director |#| Name=[Grace Coddington](/grace-coddington)
|~| Role=Art Director |#| Name=Roxanne Behr
|~| Group=Cover Models
|~| Name=[Linda Evangelista](/linda-evangelista) |#| Name=Naomi Campbell |#| Name=Christy Turlington
|~| Group=Photography |#| Open=true
|~| Role=Cover |#| Name=Patrick Demarchelier
|~| Role=Editorial |#| Name=Steven Meisel |#| Name=Peter Lindbergh |#| Name=Herb Ritts
|~| Group=Production & Styling
|~| Role=Styling |#| Name=Example Stylist
}}

Use a standalone block in an article. Single-line and multiline forms work. Line breaks are for readability: |~| separates items and |#| separates properties.

Group headers

Start each group with its own item. All following credit entries belong to that group until the next Group= item.

Property	Meaning
`Group`	Required plain-text title. Any section or role title is allowed.
`Featured`	Optional `true` or `false`; defaults to `false`. A featured group is always visible and has no collapse control.
`Open`	Optional `true` or `false`; defaults to `false`. Opens a collapsible group initially. Ignored for featured groups.

Group headers cannot also contain Name or Role. Each group must have at least one credit entry. Multiple featured groups are allowed, anywhere in the block. Groups are independent: opening one does not close another. Repeating a group title creates a separate group.

Credit entries

Property	Meaning
`Role`	Optional plain-text role, such as `Art Director` or `Cover`.
`Name`	Required; repeat once for each contributor.

Names support inline Markdown, including emphasis and wiki article links: [Anna Wintour](/anna-wintour). Use the destination article's actual URL slug; the extension does not look up people, create articles, or infer slugs. There is no special [[...]] syntax. Plain-text names also work.

Names are never split on commas, slashes, or dots. Repeated Name= properties preserve each contributor separately, in source order. Omit Role for a simple list, such as cover models. Group titles and roles are HTML-escaped plain text.

Rules and troubleshooting

The directive name IssueCredits is case-sensitive. Property names and Boolean values are case-insensitive.
Only Name is repeatable within an item. Duplicate other properties, unknown properties, empty values, missing names, and empty groups make the whole block invalid.
Invalid or unclosed blocks display their source in an error block instead of silently losing credits. Close every directive with }}; an unclosed directive collects the remaining article text.
The reserved delimiters |#|, |~|, and }} cannot appear inside values. Nested custom directives are unsupported.
Contributor names are intended for inline content. Block Markdown is displayed as plain text. Raw HTML is escaped; non-HTTP(S) absolute link targets and targets containing control characters are replaced with an empty target. External links follow the site's approved-domain policy.
This extension is enabled in articles, not talk posts. No JavaScript or new stylesheet is required for its expand/collapse behavior.

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