From 96392c3a5ae485ddc605cd0e3b6025a5f3dac51d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ruth Comer <10599679+rcomer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:01:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] add users/explain to default skip subdir

---
 doc/conf.py | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index f369c7c4b89c..c2cdadf0ec24 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ def _parse_skip_subdirs_file():
     but you can skip subdirectories of 'users'.  Doing this
     can make partial builds very fast.
     """
-    default_skip_subdirs = ['users/prev_whats_new/*', 'api/*', 'gallery/*',
-                            'tutorials/*', 'plot_types/*', 'devel/*']
+    default_skip_subdirs = [
+        'users/prev_whats_new/*', 'users/explain/*', 'api/*', 'gallery/*',
+        'tutorials/*', 'plot_types/*', 'devel/*']
     try:
         with open(".mpl_skip_subdirs.yaml", 'r') as fin:
             print('Reading subdirectories to skip from',