You don&#x27;t become listed as a contributor by merely forking a repo, your fork is just included in the original project&#x27;s &quot;forks&quot; count.<p>The project is included in a user&#x27;s &quot;Repositories contributed to&quot; area when that user creates a pull a pull request or files an issue.<p>You are listed as a contributor on a project&#x27;s page only once you have had an accepted pull request.<p>EDIT: take one of my projects for example[0] - 152 forks recorded but only 8 people are listed as contributors.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stonesam92&#x2F;ChitChat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;stonesam92&#x2F;ChitChat</a>