How about this, have that list include the people on the
frontpage and simply title it:
Contributors to the PHP Manual
Inactive or not, all of these people are contributors. Sure
some people will be listed in both places but not many.
Without more text, this implies, that the list of contributors is limited to those listed on that page, which is clearly not true, and I assume it is not the intention of anyone to give this impression. There were a lot of people who contributed smaller pieces, and it should be mentioned that none of the lists in the manual are complete. Somehow we need to make it into the output, that these are just toplists IMHO.
Goba