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# Counting contributions
The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays statistics
about contributors to Zulip and its projects. We display these
statistics prominently because they are easy to compute and can be fun
and motivating for some of our contributors; we do not consider them
to be a good way to measure someone's code contributions to a software
project.
The [Zulip team page](https://zulip.com/team/) displays commit counts for
contributors to Zulip projects. We display these statistics prominently because
they are easy to compute, and can be fun and motivating for some of our
contributors.
More importantly, many invaluable contributions may not result in the
contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback,
translations, bug reports, participation in our [development
community][dev-community]. These non-code contributions are essential
to making the Zulip project successful.
We do not consider commit count to be a good way to measure someone's
contributions to a software project. Many invaluable contributions may not
result in the contributor authoring any code at all, including design, feedback,
translations, bug reports, helping new contributors, and other types of
participation in our [development community][dev-community]. These non-code
contributions are essential to making the Zulip project successful.
Thus, Zulip's policy is to always express appreciation for non-code
contributions to the project whenever we discuss code contribution