[OpenSpending] What happened to the wiki?

Mon Sep 24 08:05:54 UTC 2012

Hi James,

I've also just linked a few new examples from that page, so you should
be able to see data that other people have linked into OpenSpending.
Thanks for pointing this out. As Friedrich points out, the format is
very flexible, so the examples are quite different - as long as you
follow the guidelines, it should be ok.

Regarding the PB notes, I realised on the flight back from Helsinki
that we never actually publicised the census, so am in the process of
writing up some short notes.

I'll speak to the tech guys a bit later about getting access to the
full notes from the sessions we had, but in the meantime, here are the
links to the etherpads, so I hope you can find what you were looking
for there!

First session: http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/pb
Second session: http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/pb2
Third session (on voting systems for PB): http://wdmmg.okfnpad.org/pb-voting

If you can't find what you are looking for, let me know and I will
rummage further :)

L

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg
<friedrich.lindenberg at okfn.org> wrote:
> Dear James,
>
> sorry for the broken links in the data cleansing section, these are on
> our TODO. Either way, it's hard to provide meaningful sample files
> because you can basically map any format of CSV file into OpenSpending
> as long as the basic rules are kept: it needs to have a date and an
> amount field (names can be anything), and it should have as many
> details as possible.
>
> If you're looking for sample files in the mean time,
> http://opendatalabs.org/misc/ is my private stash :)
>
> - Friedrich
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:09 AM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:
>> http://wiki.openspending.org redirects to
>> http://openspending.org/help/index.html
>>
>> I'm just trying to get a handle on what data should be in the CSV, but the
>> links to the example files on the following page are broken, because the
>> wiki is gone/inaccessible: http://openspending.org/help/data-cleansing.html
>>
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