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+![website status](https://img.shields.io/website?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftranslations.python.org&logoColor=yellow&label=website%20status)
+[![lint](https://github.com/python-docs-translations/dashboard/actions/workflows/lint.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/python-docs-translations/dashboard/actions/workflows/lint.yml)
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+This project generates a dashboard presenting the Python documentation translations projects.
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+There are two entrypoints:
+- `generate.py`: Generates dashboard HTML and JSON files.
+- `generate_build_details.py`: Generates the build details HTML file and log files for each translation project.