[OpenSpending] What happened to the wiki?

Mon Sep 24 21:36:05 UTC 2012

Cool, the missing guideline for me was that there must be an amount, a date (could be just a year) and some other column like the name of an account.

I had some free time this weekend so I went through those etherpads and caught up on a lot of old discussions, but I remembered we have moved/organized some more content on the wiki. It may not have been that important if it wasn't saved - assuming the wiki has been intentionally removed and it's not just an issue of the DNS pointing to the wrong place.

On 2012-09-24, at 4:05 AM, Lucy Chambers wrote:

> 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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