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+Dolphin Emulator Official Website
+=================================
+
+https://dolphin-emu.org/
+
+Technologies: Django (Python 2.x), HTML and CSS, using Twitter Bootstrap.
+
+Author: mostly Pierre Bourdon (delroth@dolphin-emu.org).
+
+Translations are handled via Transifex, see:
+    https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/dolphin-emu/resource/website/
+
+Quick overview
+--------------
+
+5 important applications:
+ * Downloads: serves the list of downloads, revision info, branch list, etc.
+   Gets requests from the Buildbot when a build is complete and updates its
+   internal database.
+ * Compat: serves the compatibility list, which gets its data from the Dolphin
+   Wiki (https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/) and from a MongoDB database containing
+   game banners (fetched and used to generate an image atlas regularly).
+ * Docs: serves the FAQ (stored internally in a database, with a dynamic i18n
+   translation layer) and the guides (stored in the Dolphin Wiki).
+ * Media: serves the screenshot gallery.
+ * Homepage: serves the homepage.
+
+Licensing
+---------
+
+Code is licensed under the MIT license: do whatever you want with it. Images
+are licensed under the CC-by-sa license: if you want to use them, please
+attribute them to us and redistribute them under the same license.