HUMANS

A "/robots.txt" file instructs robot users how to access your website but it's also nice to have a "/humans.txt" file available for your human users.   The HUMANS ("we are people, not machines") website protocol will tell human visitors about the human(s) that built the website.

https://www.nicolesharp.net/humans.txt

documentation

• humans.txt: We Are People, Not Machines

editor

As with all webtext files, you should use an advanced text editor such as Notepad-Plus-Plus (not Microsoft Windows Notepad).   Files should be saved with Unix line endings and UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format Eight-Bit) character encoding.

directory

"humans.txt" should be saved to the root webdirectory ("/") together with "/robots.txt", "/sitemap.txt", and "/security.txt".

Nicole Sharp's Website

"/humans.txt" for Nicole Sharp's Website.

/* TEAM */
Admin: Nicole Sharp
Site: https://www.nicolesharp.net/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/nicolesharp100/
Location: Cumberland, Allegany, Maryland, United States of America (US/USA)

/* THANKS */
Allegany.EDU: https://www.allegany.edu/
FileZilla: https://www.filezilla-project.org/
Frostburg.EDU: https://www.frostburg.edu/
GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
Google: https://www.google.com/
HighlightJS: https://www.highlightjs.org/
HumansTXT: https://humanstxt.org/
Inkscape: https://www.inkscape.org/
IrfanView: https://www.irfanview.com/
Matomo: https://www.matomo.org/
Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/
Mozilla: https://www.mozilla.org/
Notepad-Plus-Plus: https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/
Oracle: https://www.oracle.com/
PDFSAM: https://www.pdfsam.org/
PHP: https://www.php.net/
RobotsTXT: https://www.robotstxt.org/
SecurityTXT: https://www.securitytxt.org/
Sitemaps: https://www.sitemaps.org/
Sumatra PDF Reader: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/
W3C: https://www.w3.org/
WHATWG: https://www.whatwg.org/
Wikimedia: https://www.wikimedia.org/
Yandex: https://www.yandex.com/

/* SITE */
Last update: 2023
Language: English (EN/ENG)
Software: Microsoft Windows, Notepad-Plus-Plus, FileZilla, Matomo, Wikimedia MediaWiki, HighlightJS, PDFSAM, Sumatra PDF Reader, Inkscape, GIMP, IrfanView

TEAM

"TEAM" provides contact info for the human development team (you).

/* TEAM */
Title: Name
Site: URL
Twitter: URL
Location: City, County, State, Country (ISO3166Alpha2/ISO3166Alpha3)

I recommend including the translingual two-letter and three-letter ISO 3166 country codes for non-English speakers.

Additional URLs (uniform resource locators) to social media webprofiles can be added as desired.

THANKS

"THANKS" gives thanks to anyone who helped you build the website.  I use this field to give thanks to organizations and corporations that have provided free software to help me build the website.

/* THANKS */
Name: URL
Name: URL

SITE

"SITE" provides additional information about the website.

/* SITE */
Last update: Year
Language: LanguageName (ISO639-1/ISO639-3)
Software: Application, Application

"Last update" should be year-only to avoid confusion between whether this refers to the last update of "/humans.txt" or the last update of the website ("/*").  Content on the website may be being updated every day, but you shouldn't have to update "/humans.txt" that often.

I recommend including the translingual two-letter and three-letter ISO 639 language codes for non-English speakers.

comments

The HUMANS protocol doesn't formally specify a way to add comments.  CSS-style comment notation is already used for the section titles.  Since this is a protocol designed to be read by humans and not by machines, you should have considerable flexibility to modify the syntax of "/humans.txt" however you like as long as the content is understandable by humans (there is already a machine-readable "/robots.txt" for the bots).  If you need to add a comment, I recommend to use the same comment notation from the ROBOTS and SECURITY protocols with each comment on a new line beginning with a hash ("#").

# A comment.

ROBOTS

HUMANS can be added to the Robots Exclusion Protocol ("/robots.txt") as a comment ("#").   An example Robots Exclusion Protocol with HUMANS is given below.

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: https://www.example.net/sitemap.txt
# Security: https://www.example.net/security.txt
# Humans: https://www.example.net/humans.txt

see also

• https://www.nicolesharp.net/humans.txt
• https://humanstxt.org/
• SECURITY
• ROBOTS#SECURITY

keywords

development, HUMANS, humans.txt, ROBOTS, robots.txt, TXT, webdevelopment