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Website repository for Govdirectory - a crowdsourced and fact-checked directory of official governmental online accounts and services.

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# Govdirectory

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Website repository for Govdirectory - a crowdsourced and fact-checked directory of official governmental online accounts and services.

Govdirectory aims to become a global directory of government agencies and their online presence by utilizing Wikidata.
Wikidata's community, sourceability, versioning, and potential custom tooling that we create will ensure that not only should the information be correct but when it isn't, because of vandalism or something else, users will be able, and suggested, to validate the information.
The goal is for this directory to be useful to journalists, web-archivists, researchers and many others, certainly including regular citizens.

> [!TIP]
> Every Friday at 15.00 CET/CEST we have an open session in [Jitsi](https://meet.jit.si/GovdirectoryCollabHour) where we hack and work on the data together. Everyone is welcome and it's open for questions.

## Development setup

Govdirectory is a static site meaning that it already has all of its pages generated when a visitor visits it. Govdirectory uses Snowman and [SPARQL](https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/) to do this.

> [!TIP]
> Some of the most common development commands are available through [Just](https://github.com/casey/just), if you do not use just you can still look in the `justfile` for hints.

### Prerequisites

- [Git](https://git-scm.com/)
- [Snowman](https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman)

1\. Clone the project:

```shell
git clone https://github.com/govdirectory/website --single-branch
```

2\. Get a recent build cache copy:

```shell
cd website
git clone https://github.com/govdirectory/website-cache .snowman
```

3\. Build the website and run the development server:

```shell
snowman build && snowman server
```

### Advanced topics

- [Snowman: Working with cache](https://github.com/glaciers-in-archives/snowman#working-with-cache)

## Usage

Intended to be used through the website at [govdirectory.org](https://govdirectory.org).

## Maintainers

- [Abbe98](https://github.com/Abbe98)
- [Ainali](https://github.com/Ainali)

For now, the maintainers have the final say in all matters, but we are taking all opinions from contributors into consideration.
When the community grows, we are planning to shift to a governance model with shared responsibilities.
Besides pinging us in [issues](https://github.com/govdirectory/website/issues), [pull requests](https://github.com/govdirectory/website/pulls) and [discussions](https://github.com/govdirectory/website/discussions), you can also reach us on Mastodon where we are [@ainali](https://social.coop/@ainali) and [@abbe98](https://mastodon.social/@abbe98).

## Acknowledgements

### Unlock accelerator program

This project participated in the [Unlock accelerator program](https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/) program ([original application](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Ainali/Social_media_for_public_organizations/Unlock)).

During the accelerator, which ended in October 2021, we defined a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to: "As an MVP we want to create a working website where people can search, filter, and add data about Swedish and British public institutions and their social media accounts."

Specifically, we want to acknowledge all the help our coach [Fabian Gampp](https://www.fabiangampp.de/) gave to us. Besides general good mentorship, we wouldn't have had such a bold direction of the design of the website without him.

### Matomo server

[Wikimedia Sverige](https://github.com/Wikimedia-Sverige) is graciously providing us with Matomo analytics. [The dashboard](https://matomo.wikimedia.se/index.php?module=CoreHome&idSite=7) has been made publicly accessible.

### Open Social Fund

This project has [received a grant](https://nlnet.nl/project/Govdirectory/) to highlight Fediverse aspects from [NLnet Foundation](https://nlnet.nl/) through their Open Social Fund.

## Contributing

We are looking for people like you to [contribute](CONTRIBUTING.md) to this project by suggesting improvements and helping develop it. Get started by reading our [contributors guide](CONTRIBUTING.md).

Please note that this project is developed with a [code of conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project, you agree to abide by its terms. Please be lovely to all other community members.

## License

This repository and all contributions made to it are licensed under the [CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication](LICENSE) if not otherwise stated within a file or directory.

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