Contribute
The index is only as good as the number of people putting things into it. Three ways in — none of them require knowing how this site is built.
Three routes
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Paste a link Under a minute
No account or Git required. Paste the URL, describe what it does, and submit it for review. A maintainer checks every suggestion before anything is published.
Add an entry -
Report a problem Thirty seconds
Dead links, renamed organisations, descriptions that were never quite right. These get merged fastest, and they are worth as much as new entries — an index nobody corrects goes stale quietly.
File a correction -
Open a pull request If you know Git
Add a file to src/content/entries/. The schema is enforced at build time, so anything that would break the site fails in CI before a human looks at it.
Browse the entries
What makes a suggestion easy to accept
Do
- A link straight to the thing, not to a press release about it
- One sentence saying what it is, written as if to a colleague
- Tags from the lists below — not new ones
Avoid
- Marketing copy lifted from the homepage
- A description that names the thing again instead of saying what it does
- Five topics when two would do
Descriptions are capped at 160 characters. That cap is the single rule doing the most work here — it is the difference between a page you can scan and a page of copy somebody else wrote.
The vocabulary
Pick one kind, one to four topics, and at least one place. These are closed lists — if nothing fits, say so in the form rather than inventing a term.
- Organisation A body doing the work — research, advocacy, service delivery
- Data source Data you can download or query here — one survey or a whole statistical service
- Directory A curated list that sends you elsewhere — it holds links, not data
- Tool Software you run to do a job
- Publication Writing and reporting you read
- Dashboard A live view of data someone else keeps current
- Archive A record kept so it is not lost
- Community People to ask, and a place to ask them
Topics
People & society — Health · Nutrition · Education · Gender · Caste · Disability · Migration · Welfare
Work & money — Labour · Economy · Public finance · Philanthropy
Land & nature — Agriculture · Land · Environment · Climate · Energy · Water · Disasters
Cities — Cities · Housing · Transport
Governance — Governance · Transparency · Elections · Law & policing · Rights
Information — Media · Technology · Demography · Culture & heritage
Places
India — the country as a whole, plus any of the 28 states and 8 union territories. Sub-national work carries its state and India.
Elsewhere — Global · Asia · Africa · Europe · North America · South America · Oceania
By hand
An entry is a Markdown file. Everything after the frontmatter is an optional note that shows on the entry's own page.
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name: Open Budgets India
url: https://openbudgetsindia.org
blurb: Union, state and municipal budgets as machine-readable data
kind: dataset
topics: [governance, economy]
geography: [india]
licensing: open
access: free
added: 2026-08-06
---
Optional fields — people, contact, links, languages, funding,
location — are listed in src/content.config.ts. Fill in
what you know and leave the rest out.
Twenty at once
If you have a list rather than a single entry, open a discussion describing what you have instead of filing twenty forms. A shared spreadsheet is fine.