[OpenSpending] What happened to the wiki?

[Lucy Chambers]

Hi James,

Thanks for pointing out that that is missing, I will add it as a clarification.

We're in the process of transferring the content off the wiki onto the
main site, hence why the links have disappeared, but the old wiki
content can be found here, including the parts with the PB notes:
http://oldwiki.openspending.org/Main_Page.

I'll be working on making a participatory budgeting briefing for OS -
so would love your feedback on this. Will circulate a preliminary
draft when I get a chance.

Hope that helps,

L

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:36 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:
> 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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