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title: "Acknowledging Contributors"
source: The Turing Way
source_url: https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way
licence: CC-BY-4.0
domain: data-and-analysis
subdomain: turing-way
date_added: 2026-04-25
---

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# Acknowledging Contributors

_The Turing Way_ is collaboratively developed by its diverse community of researchers, learners, educators, and other stakeholders.

Everyone has a skill that is useful for someone, and therefore anyone can contribute to _The Turing Way_.
We value all kinds of contributions in this project and are committed to recognising each of them fairly.

```{figure} ../../figures/theturingway-acknowledgement.*
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height: 400px
name: theturingway-acknowledgement
alt: This illustration shows that the traditional acknowledgement system is broken then it shows how we try to acknowledge them fairly. We have a contributors bot that catches all the contributors information and stores them in contributors record
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The process of acknowledging contributors in *The Turing Way*. _The Turing Way_ project illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.3332807](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3332807).
```

We recognise all kinds of contributions that are possible in this project.
We update our {ref}`Contributors Table<contributors-record-contributors>` by appropriately acknowledging our contributors' work within _The Turing Way_.
Furthermore, we invite every community member to update the {ref}`Record of Contributions<contributors-record-highlights>` with their personal highlights in _The Turing Way_ and use it for promoting their contributions to open science in general.

In this chapter, we provide details on the following aspects:
- who our contributors and community members are
- how we create opportunities for a shared ownership of this project
- how we can use the record of contributions to highlight the work of our community members
- what different types and possible pathways for contributions exist in _The Turing Way_
