diff --git a/website/content/contributors.html b/website/content/contributors.html
index 9b4a5a578..643a2faba 100644
--- a/website/content/contributors.html
+++ b/website/content/contributors.html
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+<!-- NOTE: this file is a fallback in case automatic generation of
+     contributors list fails. See /website/tmpl/contributors.html -->
+
 <h1>Contributors</h1>
 
 <p>Camlistore contributors include:</p>
diff --git a/website/contributors.go b/website/contributors.go
index 1abf92ba2..568d51579 100644
--- a/website/contributors.go
+++ b/website/contributors.go
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func gitShortlog() *exec.Cmd {
 }
 
 func genContribPage() ([]byte, error) {
-	contribHTML := readTemplate("contrib.html")
+	contribHTML := readTemplate("contributors.html")
 
 	// The same committers could've authored commits with different emails/usersnames.
 	// We index the authors by name and by email to try and merge graphs connected by
diff --git a/website/tmpl/contrib.html b/website/tmpl/contributors.html
similarity index 100%
rename from website/tmpl/contrib.html
rename to website/tmpl/contributors.html