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Re: visiblepolitics.org is live

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Feb 02, 2007; 8:25pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/visiblepolitics-org-is-live-tp813p828.html

the main thing I need is someone to help install this on mediawiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/XFeed_-_RSS_Feed_Aggregator

so that i can display a feed from howdtheyvote (and other sources)  
for each politician.

h.

On Feb 2, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Cory Horner wrote:

> Let me know if you want anything from howdtheyvote...  we are  
> preparing
> to update in the next few days (database is complete, just hooking
> together the front-end).
>
> Cheers,
> Cory.
>
> Hugh McGuire wrote:
>> Throwing caution to the wind. http://visiblepolitics.org is live.
>>
>> It is a TOTALLY open project, so please jump in and shake it up.
>> Totally open, except I guess for the main objective:
>>
>> "VisiblePolitics is a project to create a complete listing of
>> Canadian federal politicians (elected and running for office) parties
>> and ridings, with information about policies, funding, voting
>> records, public statements, press, among other things.
>> VisiblePolitics is a source of information; it is NOT a source of, or
>> forum for advocacy of any kind."
>>
>> HOW YOU CAN HELP:
>> 1. Find out who your Member of Parliament is
>> 2. Visit the site: http://visiblepolitics.org
>> 3. Add some info about your MP (you can copy some stuff from
>> Wikipedia, some from the Canadian Parliament website, and ideally
>> from the mess that is Elections Canada’s financial info site).
>>
>> Note that info should be lean and objective, and not editorial.
>>
>> OR:
>> 4. Help with layout, wikiness, project direction, and tools (RSS
>> aggregator in the wiki!!)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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