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Making better use of cross-referencing

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Description

As discussed in #609, there is quite a bit of scope for making better use of Myst capabilities for cross-referencing with external documentation.

We are currently defining some site-wide references in our upstream config file to a few sets of documentation including Xarray, Matplotlib, and our own Foundations.

It would be possible to go through the book and replace a lot of full URL links to documentation pages with cross-references. And example is in the overview section of the Xarray intro notebook.

One advantage of doing this would be more stable links. If an upstream doc site reorganizes its URLs, as long as the intersphinx references stay put, the links in our book will still resolve correctly.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start with the discussion in #609, the upstream pythia.yml references, and the example in core/xarray/xarray-intro.ipynb. Review the book for full documentation URLs that can use the configured cross-references, then verify that the converted links resolve and remain stable through the site-wide references.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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