Add support for other social media handles in page and project author metadata

[thesamovar]

It's possible to add social media links to the metadata for each author in a page or book. For example the page-level config like the following:

authors:
- name: Jo the Jovyan
  affiliation: Planet Jupyter
  twitter: projectjupyter

Results in:

Option 1: Add other social media networks

In addition to Twitter, we could add support for other major social media links like:

• BlueSky
• Mastodon
• Threads

Option 2: Generalize this so others can add arbitrary data

Another option would be to generalize this pattern into something that anybody could attach a URL + icon to. For example:

authors:
- name: Jo the Jovyan
   icons:
   - url: https://x.com/projectjupyter
      icon: fa-twitter

Related issues

• This issue is the same idea but applied at the book level: Support for icon links for social, github, external links, etc myst-theme#362

[choldgraf]

Definitely something we want to support - here's the tracking issue for this in the html theme repository:

• Support for icon links for social, github, external links, etc myst-theme#362

Although that is at the site level, not the author level. I wonder if adding social links per author is actually a different enhancement?

[thesamovar]

Great!

[choldgraf]

I thought about it more and do think this is distinct from jupyter-book/myst-theme#362 so I've updated the body of this issue and focused it on author metadata!

[thesamovar]

I like the more general solution!

[thesamovar]

Thanks Chris.