Hello everyone,
Continuing the earlier discussion started by Carles, I think it would
be great for the CSL editor currently at steveridout.com/csl to move
home to csleditor.citationstyles.org. To make this easy, I’ve removed
the php dependency of the CSL editor site so it can be hosted on
github pages.
What this means:
- Hosting is now free, in terms of money and admin hassle, by hosting
it via github at any subdomain, e.g. csleditor.citationstyles.org.
It’s super-simple to set up, all you’d need to do is add a CNAME
record and alter the CNAME text file in the repo.
- Deploying is simple. Just commit the built version to the gh-pages
branch in github. (contact myself or Carles if you’d like to be a
member of the citation-style-editor github organisation)
My hope is that this new setup will make it more attractive for other
developers to get involved.
If you agree, whoever is responsible for administrating the
citationstyles.org domain (Dan Stillman?), please get in touch with me
personally and we can set things up. I can set up redirects from the
steveridout.com/csl to pages so the old links will still work.
Regards,
Steve
PS: In case anyone is curious how much use the site is getting, here
are the numbers from last month, Oct 27th - Nov 26th:
Visits: 2,001
Unique Visitors: 957
Pageviews: 6,957
Pages / Visit: 3.48
Avg. Visit Duration:00:06:58
Bounce Rate: 52.32%
% New Visits: 41.93%
+1.
So is the current editor instance served via github pages?
The instance at steveridout.com/csl is still the old one, but there’s a
test version at csleditor.steveridout.com being served by github pages now.
Don’t share this address with users though since it will disappear when/if
it moves to citationstyles.org
This seems like a no brainer. It’s quite fantastic what github can do!
This is great, and sorry for the lack of response from our end earlier.
The PHP dependency was indeed the main impediment—hosting externally
maintained server-side code in citationstyles.org’s current location was
problematic from a security perspective. Having it served straight from
a GitHub branch is fantastic.
Steve, I’ve sent you an e-mail separately regarding the CNAME setup.
Dan and I are having trouble deciding on the best subdomain name to
use, here are some options:
csleditor.citationstyles.org
editor.citationstyles.org
edit.citationstyles.org
searchandedit.citationstyles.org
The site also allows searching so maybe the last one is the most
appropriate, but a bit long.
Opinions please!
I would go for http://editor.citationstyles.org - it’s short and
sufficiently meaningful.
best
joeran–
Joeran Beel
Management & Research
Docear - The Academic Literature Suite
http://docear.org
@Joeran_Beel
Hi,
“There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation,
naming things, and off-by-one errors.”
( TwoHardThings )
Ok, let’s tackle naming things…
Dan and I are having trouble deciding on the best subdomain name to
use, here are some options:
csleditor.citationstyles.org
editor.citationstyles.org
edit.citationstyles.org
searchandedit.citationstyles.org
I like editor.citationstyles.org
My vote also goes to http://editor.citationstyles.org> The site also allows searching so maybe the last one is the most
Although there are only three votes I sensed a consensus forming so
I’ve gone ahead and put it at http://editor.citationstyles.org, try it
out, it works!
Dan, Steve, would it be possible to similarly host the (Zotero) Style
Repository at an address like repository.citationstyles.org (or
styles.citationstyles.org ) and run the code
(https://github.com/zotero/styles-repo) from GitHub?
Rintze
Hi,On 7 December 2012 16:38, Rintze Zelle <@Rintze_Zelle> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Dan Stillman <@Dan_Stillman> wrote:
This is great, and sorry for the lack of response from our end earlier.
The PHP dependency was indeed the main impediment—hosting externally
maintained server-side code in citationstyles.org’s current location was
problematic from a security perspective. Having it served straight from
a GitHub branch is fantastic.
Dan, Steve, would it be possible to similarly host the (Zotero) Style
Repository at an address like repository.citationstyles.org (or
styles.citationstyles.org ) and run the code
(GitHub - zotero/styles-repo: Zotero styles page) from GitHub?
that repo has php, github pages doesn’t do php -only static. I haven’t
looked if it’s possible or how easy is to adapt styles-repo to use
only html and javascript without php.
Revisiting this, could we simply host styles from the
citationstyles.org domain, without having a copy of the Zotero Style
Repository scripts running on the citationstyles.org server? Can we
rely on GitHub for this (while serving the styles with the appropriate
MIME-type)? I really would like to move away from the current
"self"-link prefix “http://www.zotero.org/styles/” to something like
"http://citationstyles.org/style/". There is ongoing confusion among
users about Zotero’s role in maintaining the CSL repository (e.g.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/31542/reporting-style-errors/ ),
and the current “self” links hurt CSL’s ability to profile itself as
an independent project, which doesn’t do anybody any service.
Rintze
