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The OpenCongress team is in the process of building this wiki and importing the Congresspedia wiki on SourceWatch. Contact Conor Kenny via [mailto:ckenny@sunlightfoundation.com email] to get it touch.
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==Community projects==
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===Current community projects===
  
==Pages requiring post-import cleanups==
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{{#click:Project:RaceTracker|Image:Good size for communitypage.gif||Go to the RaceTracker project!}}<br><br>
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'''<big>[[Project:RaceTracker]]</big>'''
  
Because all pages that exist on Congresspedia (they have the "<nowiki>{{congresspedia}}"</nowiki> tag) over-write any pages here. Content-wise, this is good, but there's a few nuts-and-bolts pages that have to be reverted back to their old version, including:
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Citizens tracking every candidate in every district.<br>Coordinated by the Swing State Project.
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{{#click:Project:Transparency Hub|Image:Transparency hub logo.png||Go to the Transparency Hub project!}}<br>
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<br>'''<big>[[Project:Transparency Hub]]</big>'''
  
* [[Template:Politician]]
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A collective knowledge base for the pro-transparency community.<br>Coordinated by the Sunlight Foundation.
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{{#click:Project:Benefit Wiki|Image:Benefit Wiki.png||Go to the Benefit Wiki project!}}<br/>
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<br>'''<big>[[Project:Benefit Wiki]]</big>'''
  
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Tracking unemployment benefits, including regular unemployment compensation,<br> the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and the Extended Benefits Program.<br>Benefit Wiki is a free, open-source, fully-referenced, and non-partisan public resource.<br>Coordinated by OpenCongress users.
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==Headline content==
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===Start a project===
  
* [[111th United States Congress]]
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Want to start a community project? We'd be happy to host it. Contact [[User talk:Conor Kenny|Conor Kenny]] for details.
* [[Template:Member of Congress committee display]]
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==Important pages==
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===Coming soon===
  
* [[Special:Properties]]
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* [[Project:Asian American Public Policy]]
* [[Special:CreateProperty]]
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* [[Special:Wanted pages]]
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==Access the OpenCongress data externally==
* [[Special:ListGroupRights]] - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights Wikipedia's position]
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* [[Template:Congressional district]]
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* [[Project:RaceTracker]]
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* [[Template:Racetracker]]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css MediaWiki's Common.css]
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* [[Meta:External access to OpenCongress wiki data]]
 
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Example: [http://dev.opencongress.org/person/wiki/300082_harry_reid Harry Reid dev page]
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Example: [[California congressional districts and candidates]]
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==Design work==
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* Page tools link in navbar goes to the bottom of each page.
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* The page tools are labeled as page tools.
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* Connect the light blue in the "wiki" tab to the wiki navbar.
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* No wrapping text around the table of contents
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Latest revision as of 05:04, October 7, 2009

Contents

Community projects

Current community projects



Project:RaceTracker

Citizens tracking every candidate in every district.
Coordinated by the Swing State Project.



Project:Transparency Hub

A collective knowledge base for the pro-transparency community.
Coordinated by the Sunlight Foundation.



Project:Benefit Wiki

Tracking unemployment benefits, including regular unemployment compensation,
the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program and the Extended Benefits Program.
Benefit Wiki is a free, open-source, fully-referenced, and non-partisan public resource.
Coordinated by OpenCongress users.

Start a project

Want to start a community project? We'd be happy to host it. Contact Conor Kenny for details.

Coming soon

Access the OpenCongress data externally

Toolbox

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