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I’d once created https://sites.google.com/site/sanskritcode/ mainly to catalogue sanskrit software and services out there. Many people found it useful. But it had the following drawbacks:
- I hoped that it would attract contributions and corrections, but it did not happen. So links and content easily went stale.
- Besides, that site relied on the beneficence of Google for its availability - and data was not easily exportable.
Moving to a Jekyll based github-wiki
Later, I moved all the content to https://sanskrit-coders.github.io/site/, which uses the Jekyll static site generator and a fork of the documentation-theme-jekyll theme. Turning the HTML to markdown required creating google-sheets-to-markdown.
- https://sites.google.com/site/sanskritcode/ will be deleted after a few days.
Advantages
- Anyone can use the convenient “Edit me” button to contribute changes via the github pull request.
- Whether or not this attracts more contributions (I suspect it won’t), atleast the data is freed from Google so that anyone can easily copy and host it.
- Folks can use Disqus tool at the bottom to comment on the pages as well!
Comments
Feel free to use this Jekyll theme/ setup for your own sites!
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Shifted to Hugo - which is many times faster and easier to iterate over offline. A Hugo version of the “sanskrit documentation theme” with many of the features described below is available (and used in this example) - sanskrit-documentation-theme-hugo.