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Why am I not on this member list?

The member leaderboard shows an organization's public members only — GitHub keeps membership private by default. How to make yours public, and the other reasons a person or their numbers can be missing.

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The member leaderboard on an organization page lists the organization's public members — and that's almost always the answer to "why am I not on it": GitHub makes organization membership private by default. Unless you've explicitly published yours, nobody outside the organization (including us) can see that you're a member at all.

Make your membership public

  1. Open the organization's people page: github.com/orgs/<organization>/people.
  2. Find yourself in the list.
  3. Change Organization visibility from Private to Public.

GitHub only lets you do this for yourself — an org admin can't publish your membership for you. Once it's public, you'll appear the next time the organization's data is refreshed, and your contributions start counting toward the organization totals too.

Other reasons someone is missing

  • They're not a member. Contributing to an org's repositories — even a lot — doesn't make someone a member. Outside contributors don't appear on the member list and don't count toward the totals.
  • The list hasn't refreshed yet. Membership is captured when the organization is first looked up and re-synced periodically, so a freshly-publicized membership can take a while to show up.
  • The account is suspended on commit-history. Profiles under review are hidden from every leaderboard, member lists included.

Why someone shows zero

Being on the list with a 0 is normal and not a bug. The numbers are contributions to this organization's public repositories only — see how organization stats are calculated. A member shows zero when their work in the org happens in private repositories, under an email not linked to their GitHub account, or simply in other places entirely.