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+Thank you for your interest in contributing to JSON Schema!  Your participation is appreciated!
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+If your question/request/change concerns the [JSON Schema Website](json-schema.org) you are in the right place.  If your question/request/change concerns the JSON Schema specification drafts or meta-schemas, please go to [the JSON Schema specification repository](https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec).
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-## Repo for the JSON Schema website!
+# JSON Schema Website
 
-This repo is currently undergoing a complete restructuring and removing of content not related to the website.
-It was a copy of the gh-pages branch over on the old org repo.
+This is the repository for the [JSON Schema website](http://json-schema.org).
 
-For current work on JSON Schema, please see https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec
-
-The JSON Schema web site is at http://json-schema.org
+For issues, discussion, and changes to the JSON Schema specification, please use the [json-schema-spec](https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-spec) repository.
 
 ## Status
-For the current status of issues and pull requests, please see the following labels
+For the current status of issues and pull requests, please see the following badges
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+[![Issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues-raw/json-schema-org/json-schema-org.github.io.svg)](https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-org.github.io/issues)
 
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