This repository hosts the files needed to compile my website, https://issarice.com. The website is compiled from a set of (mainly) markdown files using Pandoc and a Makefile. Assuming one has the prerequisites to compile the site (see build requirements below) just do from the shell:

make fullsite

This will generate all resulting files under _site, which can be browsed locally or be served elsewhere with:

rsync -r --delete _site/ destination_directory/

In the interest of Cool URIs, the compiled files have no file extensions (which would usually be .html). Therefore locally opening the files in your browser may not work as expected.

Since the Markdown files in this repository use Pandoc's Markdown, they do not render correctly on GitHub. Any MediaWiki files in this repository will render incorrectly on GitHub as well, because they use special templates that are only available on some MediaWiki installations (such as the English Wikipedia).

The following are the requirements to build the site:

• Pandoc ≥2.0
• GNU Make
• GNU Parallel (for generator/all_pages_table.sh); this is not strictly necessary (one can edit the script to replace Parallel with bare shell commands) but makes compilation faster
• MySQL/MariaDB (for work.py)
• Python 3 (for generator/account_names.py and generator/work.py)
  • mysql.connector library (for generator/work.py)
• Bash (for some of the shell scripts in generator/)
• Some common command-line utilities like cat, sed, and so on (used in the shell scripts)
• mathjax-node-page (trying this out as a replacement for client-side MathJax rendering); to install this, do sudo npm install -g mathjax-node-page. However note that mjpage seems to be deprecated now but I don't actually know how to replicate its functionality with plain MathJax.

I have only ever tried building the site on Debian-based GNU/Linux systems, but since most of the site is just Markdown files it shouldn't be too hard to make the site build on other systems.

Broken link detection is accomplished by two scripts:

• generator/list_links.lua, which finds all the links on the site
• generator/detect-dead-links.sh, which goes through the links and determines whether each is dead or not

Doing the following will work:

# Get all links
rm -f links.txt && \
    for filename in wiki/*; do
        pandoc -f markdown+smart -t html5 --mathjax "$filename" \
        --lua-filter generator/url_filter.lua \
        --lua-filter generator/list_links.lua \
        -o /dev/null >> links.txt
    done

# Go through the links and get the dead ones
cat links.txt | ./generator/detect-dead-links.sh > temp

sort -u temp > dead.txt && rm temp

The content in this repository is variously licensed.

The vast majority of the files in wiki/, the main content directory, is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. For all files in wiki/, if the YAML header does not have a license field, it is CC0; otherwise whatever is in the license field gives the license. When compiling the website, Pandoc uses templates/default.html5 to perform exactly this logic, so it might be easier to look at the bottom of the compiled page.

For files in external/ (which I use as a place to store contributions to external sites), the license depends on whether I am the sole contributor. If I am the sole contributor, it is CC0. Otherwise, the license is whatever that is used on the destination site. For instance, most of the files in external/en.wikipedia.org/ are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License because that is what the English Wikipedia uses and I often incorporate edits from others when writing Wikipedia pages.

For files in templates/, everything except default.html5 is CC0. The file default.html5 inherits from the Pandoc template (dual licensed GPL v2 or higher or BSD 3-clause); the BSD 3-clause license is reproduced below.

All the files in images/ except identification-photo.jpg are CC0. For the exception, I don't remember if the photographer has allowed me to license it freely.

Everything in generator/ is CC0. Since these are scripts that allow comments, there should be a license line near the top of each.

Everything in static/ except anchor.min.js, jquery-latest.min.js, jquery.tablesorter.js, and theme.default.css is CC0. The exceptions are variously licensed; you can look at the file for the license. For theme.default.css, see my tablesorter bare bones theme repository.

Everything in data/ is CC0.

The files .gitignore, Makefile, TODO.txt, page_reqs.txt, as well as this README file are CC0.

If the license of a particular file is unclear, please ask me.

This applies to templates/default.html5.

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