[OpenSpending] What happened to the wiki?

Tue Sep 25 13:55:39 UTC 2012

I found what I was looking for: http://oldwiki.openspending.org/Meetups/Participatory_Budgeting Thanks!

On 2012-09-25, at 9:20 AM, Lucy Chambers wrote:

> 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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