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Second field for Author is confusing and incomplete
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In the Diff publishing interface, in the right-sidebar there is a field labeled "Author", with a dropdown selection menu. This menu only includes ~100 entries and stops at names beginning with Fe. This is confusing.

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IIUC, it has been replaced with the new "Authors" section that appears below the draft-content.
The redundant/broken menu item should be removed/hidden?

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Agreed, this is confusing. The extension we're using for WordPress allows us to have multiple authors, and authors who don't have an account on Diff. It also conflicts with this setting in ways that doesn't give appropriate attribution in the email version of posts. I digress.

The plugin developers are aware of the issue reported here and have a work around. Once I update this plugin this issue will be resolved. That should happen soon, 🤞.

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This has been fixed with a recent update to the co-authors plugin. You can now more easily manage multiple authors. See this blog post about the update!

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/02/a-few-translation-related-updates-to-diff/