Add a list of CKAN instances to the website
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Description
On the old website there was a page with CKAN instances (ckan.org/instances) which no longer exists. We want to revive it.
Expected behaviour
When visiting ckan.org website, one should be able to
- see a list of all CKAN instances
- add their instance to the list (after moderator approval)
Ideally this would be a subpage of the Showcase page - ckan.org/showcase/instances (although open to other suggestions).
we can use a link to datashades.info - there we already have a huge list of CKAN websites worldwide
@Alex-Pavlyuk any progress here?
@Alex-Pavlyuk any progress here?
we are looking for help to make these changes, but anyway it is not a small change request
@popovayoana, @Alex-Pavlyuk Hi. I've looked through this issue. What did you decide finally? Just a link (button) to datashades.info (simple and fast) or a new page (complex, long while and some clarifications are needed)?
@Alex-Pavlyuk @Alex-Pavlyuk IMO we can hold that one for now as we have no clear intentions and vision atm
@popovayoana Any new ideas or thoughts?
I'll add a ticket related to this for the datashades.info project as it could likely publish a verified list of CKAN portals as an API service, making it available to ckan.org and other applications that might wish to grab the list. With such a service, the ckan.org site can then generate an instances view similar to the one that was used previously.
Adding telemetry to the core would help tracking total amount of instances and amount of new instances per period of time. Have an evidence of a global open-source project (Percona) had the same struggle and moved the way of adding telemetry.