This is me, a "non-coder" blue-collar IBEW electrician (retired).
Twenty years ago, while using a really cool open source project [written by ESL programmers], I emailed the team and offered my own English revisions to their initial documentation attempts.
Even today [without any further contributions], I'm one of ten people in the "special thanks to" section of their project, which has 100m+ downloads to date, and has updates from hundreds of contributors.
I'm not sure why "I'm so special" [to still be thanked], but I do list this under the copyediting section of my resumé [because the software is well-known].
Perhaps a little cynically, but partly based on similar credits on software I maintain: because the current maintainers aren't quite sure what you did any more, and don't want to cause a problem by removing your name.
Twenty years ago, while using a really cool open source project [written by ESL programmers], I emailed the team and offered my own English revisions to their initial documentation attempts.
Even today [without any further contributions], I'm one of ten people in the "special thanks to" section of their project, which has 100m+ downloads to date, and has updates from hundreds of contributors.
I'm not sure why "I'm so special" [to still be thanked], but I do list this under the copyediting section of my resumé [because the software is well-known].