Website repository for Govdirectory - a crowdsourced and fact-checked directory of official governmental online accounts and services.
Govdirectory aims to become a global directory of government agencies and their online presence by utilizing Wikidata. Wikidatas community, sourceability, versioning, and potential custom tooling that we create will ensure that not only should the information be correct but when it isn't, because of vandalism or something else, users will be able, and suggested, to validate the information. The goal is for this directory to be useful to journalists, web-archivists, researchers and many others, certainly including regular citizens.
- Snowman
- A local WDQS instance or a Snowman cache directory.
Govdirectory is a static site meaning that it already has all of its pages generated when a visitor visits. Govdirectory uses Snowman and SPARQL to do this. Because each initial build of Snowman issues thousands (yes thousands) of SPARQL queries one should never run it against query.wikidata.org but rather against a local WDQS instance.
Having installed Snowman and populated a WDQS instance with data you can run Snowman to build the site after you have update snowman.yaml to point to the URL of your WDQS instance.
snowman build
To learn more about Snowman and its concepts check out its readme.
Not usable yet, since we're still in a concept phase.
Besides pinging us in issues, pull requests and discussions, you can also reach us on Twitter where we are @Jan_Ainali and @AlbinPCLarsson.
This project participated in the Unlock accelerator program program (original application).
During the accelerator, which ended in October 2021, we defined a Minimale Viable Product (MVP) to: "As an MVP we want to create a working website where people can search, filter, and add data about Swedish and British public institutions and their social media accounts."
Specifically, we want to acknowledge all the help our coach Fabian Gampp gave to us. Besides general good mentorship, we wouldn't have had such a bold direction of the design of the website without him.
Wikimedia Sverige is graciously providing us with Matomo analytics. The dashboard has been made publicly accessible.
We are looking for people like you to contribute to this project by suggesting improvements and helping develop it. Get started by reading our contributors guide.
Please note that this project is developed with a code of conduct. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by its terms. Please be lovely to all other community members.
This repository and all contributions made to it are licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication if not otherwise stated within a file or directory.