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The content of this Toolbox can be edited locally or directly here on GitHub with any Markdown editor or in a plain text editor.

Editing the Toolbox locally

When you are ready to continue with the following procedure:

  1. Install mkdocs as described by running pip install mkdocs && mkdocs --version. The last line of the output should look something like this: mkdocs, version 0.16.3. A detailed explanation on how to install MkDocs can be found here.
  2. Install the material theme for MkDocs by running pip install mkdocs-material. the last output line should like something like this: Successfully installed mkdocs-material-1.9.0 pygments-2.2.0. A detailed explanation on how to install Material for MkDocs can be found here.
  3. Install the Python-Markdown extension markdown-include by running pip install markdown-include.
  4. Install PyMdown extensions by running pip install pymdown-extensions.
  5. Clone this repository to your local computer.
  6. Open your terminal and navigate into the online-learner-toolbox.
  7. Run mkdocs serve to view the Toolbox locally.
  8. Edit the .mdfiles within .../docs to change the content of the Toolbox.
  9. Rund mkdocs build to build the Toolbox with the new content locally.
  10. Push your changes to the repository.

Universal Google Analytics tracking

The toolbox is equipped with a Universal Google Analytics tracking code for cross side tracking. It's located in the ~/online-learner-toolbox/mkdocs-material/material/base.html file.

<script>
            (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
            (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
            m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
            })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');


            // Connect with the master Kiron GA key
            ga('create', 'UA-67248439-8', 'auto');

            // allow for cross-domain linking
            ga('require', 'linker');

            //list all kiron domains
            ga('linker:autoLink', ['kiron.ngo','support.kiron.ngo', 'apply.kiron.ngo', 'buddy.kiron.ngo', 'campus.kiron.ngo', 'survey.kiron.ngo', 'forum.kiron.ngo'] );

            // Set IP tracking to anonymize #germanlaw
            ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true);

            // Track this initial page load
            ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>

Troubleshoothing

Python and pip are sometimes a fucking nightmare on OSX. In case you are running into any kind of trouble with those two, stick to the following procedure:

  1. Uninstall/Remove Python 2.7 dependencies by following this procedure: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3819829
  2. Install Python 3.x by downloading it from python.org python.org
  3. Upgrade pip to the latest version by running sudo pip install --upgrade pip.
  4. Follow the installation procedure above again.
  5. Be happy 💥

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