Space for discussion and context about the Suttas

[sirinath]

It is possible to include a comment area with each sutta where you can discuss more about the Sutta in the relevant page itself. Also a context and background areas (Wiki like but restricted based on acceptance of edits like in Pull Requests) where you can have some background, history discussion and information like in Piya Tan’s translations.

[mikenz66]

Hi @sirinath, I think the Discuss and Discover linking scheme does most of what you want:

Help add resources!

You may have noticed that I’ve been adding a bunch of talks and other resources here on Discourse. This is one of the purposes I’d like to see this platform used for: a gathering place for the great teachings on the Suttas that are scattered all over the web. And here’s where you can help. Find the talks, essays, articles, chanting, or whatever that inspires you and helps you understand the Suttas, and post it here. I’m starting this now because we are ready to move to the next step of integra…

Discuss & Discover

I’m starting this thread to discuss the new “Discuss & Discover” feature that we are rolling out soon on Suttacentral. Essentially what this does is that when you open the sidebar for any text, it shows you the relevant posts for that text here on Discourse. So if I write, say, MN56, in this thread, as soon as I save this post it will appear in the sidebar at http://staging.suttacentral.net/pi/mn56, and at any translations. I just checked, and yep, it’s there! Let me give some background as to …

[sirinath]

Wonderful. This is what I also had in mind, but was hidden in the sidebar. Also may be a wiki like entry with additional information like in Piya Tan’s translations would be good.

Also maybe you can add a link below the Sutta for this feature for easy discovery.