update publish date and unnecessary/pedantic whitespace cleanup

Author: TimidRobot

content/blog/entries/2026-01-22-My-outreachy-journey/contents.lr

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 title: Quantifying the Commons: My Journey so far with outreachy
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 categories:
-open-source
 collaboration
 community
+open-source
 quantifying-the-commons
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 author: Oreoluwa
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-pub_date: 2023-01-22
+pub_date: 2023-01-21
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 body:
 
 Hi there! My name is Oreoluwa, from Nigeria. I am an Outreachy intern at
-Creative Commons for the December 2025 cohort. My project involves improving and
-expanding Quantifying the commons. In this post, I will share my progress and
-key takeaways from the first half of my internship.
+Creative Commons for the December 2025 cohort. My project involves improving
+and expanding Quantifying the commons. In this post, I will share my progress
+and key takeaways from the first half of my internship.
 
 ## Project overview
 
 Quantifying the commons aims to track and analyse the trends of the creative
-commons legal tools. Who is using these legal tools, where, why, how? We want to
-measure the impact of these tools. For the past 25 years, efforts have
-been made by the organisation to democratize knowledge and content on the
-internet. We want to identify our growth, gaps and areas for development.
+commons legal tools. Who is using these legal tools, where, why, how? We want
+to measure the impact of these tools. For the past 25 years, efforts have been
+made by the organisation to democratize knowledge and content on the internet.
+We want to identify our growth, gaps and areas for development.
 
 ### A brief history I learnt about
 
@@ -55,56 +55,55 @@ interruption. I integrated a workflow that checks if an output has been
 generated previously to avoid regeneration or running of script continuously,
 when we have an output already.
 
-#### Another script requirement is making the script idempotent 
+#### Another script requirement is making the script idempotent
 
 Making the script idempotent means executing the python scripts multiple times
-and still get the same output. Before my work on the project, the report scripts
-usually append it sections to the readme using the `update_readme()` function and
-this allows the order of outputs to change. For example when I run a script, I
-can get A-B-C but when I run it again maybe in the next quarter. I could get
-B-C-A, we don't want it like that. It should be predictable and consistent
-across quarters. But now,it inserts the sections alphabetically to the right
-position regardless of how the python scripts were executed. So we get A-B-C in
-quarter 1 and A-B-C in quarter 2.
+and still get the same output. Before my work on the project, the report
+scripts usually append it sections to the readme using the `update_readme()`
+function and this allows the order of outputs to change. For example when I run
+a script, I can get A-B-C but when I run it again maybe in the next quarter. I
+could get B-C-A, we don't want it like that. It should be predictable and
+consistent across quarters. But now,it inserts the sections alphabetically to
+the right position regardless of how the python scripts were executed. So we
+get A-B-C in quarter 1 and A-B-C in quarter 2.
 
-#### Documentation on the project 
+#### Documentation on the project
 
 Improving contributors experience is a big part of the project. During the
-Outreachy contribution phase, new contributors kept on asking the same questions
-over and over again because there were some lack of information in the
-documentation. Timid Robot and I tried to identify areas that were lacking
-clarity and we put in more context into the sides of the documentation. 
-
+Outreachy contribution phase, new contributors kept on asking the same
+questions over and over again because there were some lack of information in
+the documentation. Timid Robot and I tried to identify areas that were lacking
+clarity and we put in more context into the sides of the documentation.
 
 #### Completing the three stages of report for existing scripts
 
 Previous contributions had incomplete stages of report for a particular data
 source. I worked on completing the process and report stage for the Openverse
 data source. This required understanding the data fetched and what meaningful
-data or insight can be beneficial for the different teams in the organisation. 
-
-### Current status 
+data or insight can be beneficial for the different teams in the organisation.
 
-I am currently working on completing the process and report stage for other data
-sources. Then I expand the project by adding new data sources for reporting. An
-iterative task for me is to check for areas in the code that might need
-improvement or better ways of doing things in the codebase. 
+### Current status
 
+I am currently working on completing the process and report stage for other
+data sources. Then I expand the project by adding new data sources for
+reporting. An iterative task for me is to check for areas in the code that
+might need improvement or better ways of doing things in the codebase.
 
-### Collaboration with mentors 
+### Collaboration with mentors
 
 My favorite part of this project is my weekly meetup with my mentors, I get to
-ask questions, get ideas on ways I could improve something or solve a problem. I
-also get to review work done by my mentors, which allows me to learn from their
-approaches and imbibe them into my contributions.
+ask questions, get ideas on ways I could improve something or solve a problem.
+I also get to review work done by my mentors, which allows me to learn from
+their approaches and imbibe them into my contributions.
 
-### Key takeways 
+### Key takeways
 
 Open source has been one of the coolest experiences in my tech journey. It has
 helped me expand my skill set, as I picked up new programming languages along
-the way. I learned to easily identify optimal solutions, especially when working
-within constraints or limitations that could affect outcomes. Through this, I
-realized the importance of building the simplest possible architecture first,
-and then gradually adding components as the solution evolves.
+the way. I learned to easily identify optimal solutions, especially when
+working within constraints or limitations that could affect outcomes. Through
+this, I realized the importance of building the simplest possible architecture
+first, and then gradually adding components as the solution evolves.
 
-I am excited to embark on the next half! I hope to make more impact on this project.
+I am excited to embark on the next half! I hope to make more impact on this
+project.