Add a list of CKAN instances to the website

[popovayoana]

Description
On the old website there was a page with CKAN instances (ckan.org/instances) which no longer exists. We want to revive it.

Expected behaviour
When visiting ckan.org website, one should be able to

1. see a list of all CKAN instances
2. add their instance to the list (after moderator approval)

Ideally this would be a subpage of the Showcase page - ckan.org/showcase/instances (although open to other suggestions).

[Alex-Pavlyuk]

we can use a link to datashades.info - there we already have a huge list of CKAN websites worldwide

[popovayoana]

@Alex-Pavlyuk any progress here?

[Alex-Pavlyuk]

@Alex-Pavlyuk any progress here?

we are looking for help to make these changes, but anyway it is not a small change request

[alexmorev]

@popovayoana, @Alex-Pavlyuk Hi. I've looked through this issue. What did you decide finally? Just a link (button) to datashades.info (simple and fast) or a new page (complex, long while and some clarifications are needed)?

[popovayoana]

@Alex-Pavlyuk @Alex-Pavlyuk IMO we can hold that one for now as we have no clear intentions and vision atm

[alexmorev]

@popovayoana Any new ideas or thoughts?

[Starl3n]

I'll add a ticket related to this for the datashades.info project as it could likely publish a verified list of CKAN portals as an API service, making it available to ckan.org and other applications that might wish to grab the list. With such a service, the ckan.org site can then generate an instances view similar to the one that was used previously.

[thegostev]

Adding telemetry to the core would help tracking total amount of instances and amount of new instances per period of time. Have an evidence of a global open-source project (Percona) had the same struggle and moved the way of adding telemetry.

ckan/ckan#7587