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Add example databases list somewhere useful

Open justinclift opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

One of our users pointed out that there's no easily findable list of example public databases.

They mentioned looking on the front page, then not finding anything asked directly via our Chat interface.

Not super sure on the best place to put such a thing, but perhaps even just a link (eg "example databases) in the website page footer which goes to a list would work.

We could potentially even point it out during the new user sign up process too. :smile:

justinclift avatar Mar 17 '21 21:03 justinclift

I just noticed a link to this example plot on the home page https://dbhub.io/vis/justinclift/Marine%20Litter%20Survey%20%28Keep%20Northern%20Ireland%20Beautiful%29.sqlite that's a good start, not sure how I missed that the first time around

ryan-williams avatar Mar 17 '21 21:03 ryan-williams

Cool. :smile:

justinclift avatar Mar 17 '21 21:03 justinclift

What about a ranking of the most starred databases? If the resulting list does not convince us (since the number might be so low that could be insignificant for a ranking), then we (and some friends :smile: if needed) could give a push to those that we find interesting.

mgrojo avatar Mar 17 '21 22:03 mgrojo

The Wiki would be the first port of call, as that's easily updatable. Web page links can easily point to it, plus include some example ones that we know will stay there (I assume the public list will change often). Theoretically (?) it should be easy to update the wiki page via an external program - github itself has a large API, so I'm assuming there...

chrisjlocke avatar Mar 17 '21 23:03 chrisjlocke