Add what is scatterkit section (#5)

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Co-authored-by: Kira Fischer <kira@ih95.de>
Co-authored-by: Philip Loche <ploche@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Author: 3 people

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ v0.0.1 (2025/08/05)
 Kira Fischer, Philip Loche
 
 - Update to Python 3.14 support
+- Updated the docs with Whatis section
 - Migrated code from maicos to scatterkit

MANIFEST.in

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ prune docs
 prune examples
 prune tests
 prune developer
-prune .tox
 
 exclude .codecov.yml
 exclude .gitattributes

README.rst

@@ -5,7 +5,25 @@ Scatterkit
 
 .. inclusion-readme-intro-start
 
-Scatterkit does SAXS analysis of molecular dynamics simulations.
+**Scatterkit** is an object-oriented python toolkit for analysing scattering of
+fluids from molecular simulations. Combined with MDAnalysis_,
+Scatterkit can be used to extract X-ray scattering data from trajectory files,
+including LAMMPS, GROMACS, CHARMM or NAMD data. Scatterkit is open source and is
+released under the GNU general public license v3.0.
+
+Scatterkit is a tool for beginners of molecular simulations with no prior Python experience.
+For these users Scatterkit provides a descriptive command line interface. Also experienced
+users can use the Python API for their day to day analysis.
+
+Scatterkit is maintained by the MAICoS developer team.
+Keep up to date with Scatterkit news by following us on Twitter_. If you find an issue, you
+can report it on GitHub_. You can also join the developer team on Discord_ to discuss
+possible improvements and usages of Scatterkit.
+
+.. _`MDAnalysis`: https://www.mdanalysis.org
+.. _`Twitter`: https://twitter.com/maicos_analysis
+.. _`GitHub`: https://github.com/maicos-devel/scatterkit
+.. _`Discord`: https://discord.gg/mnrEQWVAed
 
 .. inclusion-readme-intro-end
 

src/scatterkit/__init__.py

@@ -5,13 +5,9 @@
 from ._version import get_versions
 from .saxs import Saxs
 
-__authors__ = "MAICoS Developer Team"
-#: Version information for MAICoS, following :pep:`440`
+#: Version information for Scatterkit, following :pep:`440`
 #: and `semantic versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
 __version__ = get_versions()["version"]
 del get_versions
 
-
-__all__ = [
-    "Saxs",
-]
+__all__ = ["Saxs"]