diff --git a/scripts/supybot-newplugin b/scripts/supybot-newplugin
index afae62f25..8e182e904 100755
--- a/scripts/supybot-newplugin
+++ b/scripts/supybot-newplugin
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ import supybot
 
 __revision__ = "$%s$"
 __author__ = supybot.authors.unknown
+__contributors__ = {}
 
 import supybot.plugins as plugins