Govdirectory
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.
Development setup
Govdirectory is a static site meaning that it already has all of its pages generated when a visitor visits it. Govdirectory uses Snowman and SPARQL to do this.
Because each initial build of Snowman issues thousands (yes thousands) of SPARQL queries one should never make an initial build against query.wikidata.org but rather against a local Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) instance. However, because setting up a WDQS instance is nontrivial we provide a copy of a Snowman build cache directory. If in use, this will ensure Snowman only queries Wikidata when a query is updated.
Prerequisites
1. Clone the project:
git clone https://github.com/govdirectory/website2. Get a recent build cache:
cd website
git clone https://github.com/govdirectory/website-cache .snowman3. Build the website and run the development server:
snowman build && snowman serverAdvanced topics
Usage
Intended to be used through the website at govdirectory.org.
Maintainers
Besides pinging us in issues, pull requests and discussions, you can also reach us on Twitter where we are @Jan_Ainali and @AlbinPCLarsson.
Acknowledgements
Unlock accelerator program
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.
Matomo server
Wikimedia Sverige is graciously providing us with Matomo analytics. The dashboard has been made publicly accessible.
Contributing
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.
License
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.