Publish Thanissaro translations to SuttaCentral

duplicate content and search engines

I don’t know if this has been covered already for earlier ports, but it would be good to add canonical link tags back to source URLs for “legacy” texts when possible. Particularly in this case, where there’s a clear digitized version available elsewhere. It helps make sure that search engines don’t get confused by the duplicate content.

non-bilara segmented texts

It might make sense to start considering options for texts that were segmented independently, outside of Bilara. As there seem to be a growing number getting segmented in one way or another.
Just throwing it out there, for example, as a separate repo or a new folder in sc-data.

re: more translations in English

Bhante @sujato, is there any chance you could clarify this policy when it comes to languages which already have complete translations? As in, you had previously stated:

That was 4 years ago, and was specific to Ven. Thanissaro’s translations too.
Here’s a more recent statement from 2 years ago, which has been made elsewhere too (such as on GitHub):

I’m not sure if my quotes are too dated or your thoughts have changed on the topic, but it would be helpful to get some clarity to avoid misunderstandings :folded_hands:

One way to interpret all 3 together may be that it’s not something staff would work on or that you would encourage, but if anyone really wants to do it, it also wouldn’t be declined?

small example

Just adding a small tidbit below to illustrate how it can be helpful for us volunteers, contributors, etc to be able to reference your past decisions for clarity about what makes sense to spend time on etc:
I considered the same task of getting more of Ven. Thanissaro’s translations ported to SC, and at one point even considered collecting every translation I could find from any author in one place (although Citation Helper helps with indexing some of the digitized ones already). Particularly for historical archival purposes.
But when I read through your past statements, it seemed to me that such a task wouldn’t necessarily align with SC’s goals – at least not when a complete translation already exists – and I should perhaps spend my time on other tasks (which I have and still am).

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