[wdmmg-discuss] Whole of Government Accounts Wikipedia article

Fri Jun 11 13:07:18 UTC 2010

Lisa: didn't we find some interesting archived pages on WGA on Wayback
Machine? Francis: have you looked up any of the expired URLs?

This is exactly why John Sheridan et al's work on Web Continuity
project is so important! ;-)

http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/download/106/81

Also what do you think about some kind of 'ask an expert' mini service
-- with support from HMT/OPSI for details? I'm sure they could be
interested. Understanding UK public finance evidently ultimately
entails more than numbers and pictures!

J.

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Lisa Evans <lisa.evans at okfn.org> wrote:
> Thanks Francis!
>
> You're quite right, we should add more of the knowledge we've built up in
> this project to wikipedia.
>
> I've added some guidance for they type of things we can add to wikipedia
> pages at:
>
> http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYn3JiuouxLUZGN0eGIzOWNfMzdkN3ZncnJqNA&hl=en
>
> Basically it says:
>
> 1. pick a subject that interests you for where does my money go?
> 2. check if it has relevant wikipedia pages
> 3. check if you can add anything more to that page.
>
> Some suggestions for things to look up in wikipedia are:
> - any of the main wdmmg data sets at (http://www.ckan.net/group/wdmmg)
> - concepts like Resource Allocation Budgeting
>
> An e.g. of a wikipedia page that needs improvement is the whole of
> government accounts.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_of_Government_Accounts
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Lisa
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Francis Irving wrote:
>
>> Dear Lazy Web,
>>
>> I couldn't find a one paragraph or one article, general reader summary
>> of what the phrase "Whole of Government Accounts" means anywhere on
>> the web.
>>
>> I've done the best I can (with links to some references, thanks Donny)
>> here:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_of_Government_Accounts
>>
>> Please make it better if you know more!
>>
>> Francis
>>
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