External reach — CDSL's scholarly footprint

Who builds on, clones, ships, and cites the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon (CDSL) — framed as scholarly reach, not funder-facing vanity metrics (Workstream G6). Measured signals (stars/forks, GitHub traffic, downstream dependents) carry a URL and/or fetch date; the estimated citation tier is representative, with no completeness claim. Source: reports/external_reach.md, generated by scripts/external_reach.py.

The stars-vs-clones gap is the finding. The org collects roughly stars in total, yet its core repositories are cloned times in a single 14-day window. CDSL is consumed as infrastructure — cloned, mirrored, and served through the Cologne website — not favourited on GitHub. Star count badly understates reach.

GitHub traffic — the real usage signal

How to read: Clones over a rolling 14-day window (GitHub only exposes two weeks, and only to accounts with push access). This is a sample of core infrastructure repos, not all 76, and the window slides — read it as a spot measurement, not a cumulative total. Bars are clone counts; the tooltip notes unique cloners. Example: csl-orig — the master dictionary source — draws the heaviest clone traffic because every downstream build pulls it.

Conclusion: Two weeks of clones ( across the sampled core) dwarf thirteen years of stars (). The audience is builders and mirrors pulling data programmatically, not GitHub stargazers — exactly the profile of a piece of scholarly infrastructure.

Downstream dependents — who ships CDSL

Third-party projects that ship, wrap, or serve CDSL data. Each is a URL-checkable project that chose the Cologne lexicon as its lexical backbone — the strongest scholar-facing reach evidence.

Plus further external repositories surfaced by GitHub code search referencing org raw-URLs or the Cologne site (a floor — code search indexes only a subset of public code):

Scholarly citations — representative, not exhaustive

A representative set of published works that use or cite the Cologne dictionaries/lexicon (web + Scholar, 2020–2026). This is not a systematic citation count — a full Scholar / OpenAlex sweep is the API-gated G6 extension.

Zenodo OBS-T stats — blocked (DOI mismatch)

Once the correct OBS-T record exists, update ZENODO_RECORD_ID in scripts/external_reach.py and re-run --fetch to populate this tier.

Last API fetch: . API tiers are cached (committed) under reports/external_reach_cache/ so this page regenerates offline. Object of analysis: repository metadata, GitHub traffic, third-party code references, and publication citations — in scope per docs/BOUNDARY_RULES.md. Roadmap: Workstream G6.