diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.md b/CONTRIBUTORS.md
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index e876751d7..000000000
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
- Andreas Shimokawa <shimokawa@fsfe.org>
- Carsten Pfeiffer <cpfeiffer@users.noreply.github.com>
- Daniele Gobbetti <daniele@gobbetti.name>
- Julien Pivotto <roidelapluie@inuits.eu>
- Steffen Liebergeld <perl@gmx.org>
- Lem Dulfo <lemuel.dulfo@gmail.com>
- Sergey Trofimov <sarg@sarg.org.ru>
- JohnnySun <bmy001@gmail.com>
- Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
- 0nse <0nse@users.noreply.github.com>
- Gergely Peidl <gergely@peidl.net>
- Christian Fischer <sw-dev@computerlyrik.de>
- Normano64 <per.bergqwist@gmail.com>
- Ⲇⲁⲛⲓ Φi <daniphii@outlook.com>
- xzovy <caleb@caleb-cooper.net>
- xphnx <xphnx@users.noreply.github.com>
- Tarik Sekmen <tarik@ilixi.org>
- Szymon Tomasz Stefanek <s.stefanek@gmail.com>
- Roman Plevka <rplevka@redhat.com>
- rober <rober@prtl.nodomain.net>
- Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com>
- Natanael Arndt <arndtn@gmail.com>
- Marc Schlaich <marc.schlaich@googlemail.com>
- kevlarcade <kevlarcade@gmail.com>
- Kevin Richter <me@kevinrichter.nl>
- Kasha <kasha_malaga@hotmail.com>
- Ivan <ivan_tizhanin@mail.ru>
- Gilles MOREL <contact@gilles-morel.fr>
- Gilles Émilien MOREL <Almtesh@users.noreply.github.com>
- Chris Perelstein <chris.perelstein@gmail.com>
- Carlos Ferreira <calbertoferreira@gmail.com>
- atkyritsis <at.kyritsis@gmail.com>
- andre <andre.buesgen@yahoo.de>
- Alexey Afanasev <avafanasiev@gmail.com>
- 6arms1leg <m.brnsfld@googlemail.com>
-
-And all the Transifex translators, which I cannot automatically list, at the moment.
-
-git log --raw | grep "^Author: " | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n -r | cut -f 2- -d: > CONTRIBUTORS.md
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.rst b/CONTRIBUTORS.rst
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--- /dev/null
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+.. 2>/dev/null
+ names () 
+ { 
+ echo -e "\n exit;\n**Contributors (sorted by number of commits):**\n";
+ git log --all --format='%aN:%aE' | sed 's/@users.github.com/@users.noreply.github.com/g' | awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{ct[$2]+=1;if (length($1) > length(e[$2])) {e[$2]=$1}}END{for (i in e)  { n[e[i]]=i;c[e[i]]+=ct[i] }; for (a in n) print c[a]"\t* "a" <"n[a]">";}' | sort -n -r | cut -f 2-
+ }
+ quine () 
+ { 
+ { 
+ echo ".. 2>/dev/null";
+ declare -f names | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/ /';
+ declare -f quine | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*/ /';
+ echo -e " quine\n";
+ names;
+ echo -e "\nAnd all the Transifex translators, which I cannot automatically list, at the moment.\n\n*To update the contributors list just run this file with bash*"
+ } > CONTRIBUTORS.rst;
+ exit
+ }
+ quine
+
+
+ exit;
+**Contributors (sorted by number of commits):**
+
+* Andreas Shimokawa <shimokawa@fsfe.org>
+* Carsten Pfeiffer <cpfeiffer@users.noreply.github.com>
+* Daniele Gobbetti <daniele+github@gobbetti.name>
+* Julien Pivotto <roidelapluie@inuits.eu>
+* Steffen Liebergeld <perl@gmx.org>
+* Lem Dulfo <lemuel.dulfo@gmail.com>
+* Sergey Trofimov <sarg@sarg.org.ru>
+* JohnnySun <bmy001@gmail.com>
+* Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
+* Gergely Peidl <gergely@peidl.net>
+* 0nse <0nse@users.noreply.github.com>
+* Christian Fischer <sw-dev@computerlyrik.de>
+* Normano64 <per.bergqwist@gmail.com>
+* Ⲇⲁⲛⲓ Φi <daniphii@outlook.com>
+* xzovy <caleb@caleb-cooper.net>
+* xphnx <xphnx@users.noreply.github.com>
+* Tarik Sekmen <tarik@ilixi.org>
+* Szymon Tomasz Stefanek <s.stefanek@gmail.com>
+* Roman Plevka <rplevka@redhat.com>
+* rober <rober@prtl.nodomain.net>
+* Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms@gmail.com>
+* Natanael Arndt <arndtn@gmail.com>
+* Marc Schlaich <marc.schlaich@googlemail.com>
+* kevlarcade <kevlarcade@gmail.com>
+* Kevin Richter <me@kevinrichter.nl>
+* Kasha <kasha_malaga@hotmail.com>
+* Ivan <ivan_tizhanin@mail.ru>
+* Gilles MOREL <contact@gilles-morel.fr>
+* Gilles Émilien MOREL <Almtesh@users.noreply.github.com>
+* Chris Perelstein <chris.perelstein@gmail.com>
+* Carlos Ferreira <calbertoferreira@gmail.com>
+* atkyritsis <at.kyritsis@gmail.com>
+* andre <andre.buesgen@yahoo.de>
+* Alexey Afanasev <avafanasiev@gmail.com>
+* 6arms1leg <m.brnsfld@googlemail.com>
+
+And all the Transifex translators, which I cannot automatically list, at the moment.
+
+*To update the contributors list just run this file with bash*