The text provides a brief overview of a GitHub page that lists contributors to a project, ordered by the number of commits they have made. It mentions notable projects and contributors such as jQuery, node.js, and Rails, with links to specific contributors’ commit lists. An API call is introduced for retrieving contributor information, demonstrated with an example command for accessing data from the node.js repository. The information was written by Chris Wanstrath, who is also known by his GitHub handle, @defunkt.