Apps for Democracy

We The People Wiki

2008 November 12th
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App URL: http://www.wethepeoplewiki.com

Code location: see below

Award type: Silver Agency

We the People Wiki is a peer-led community reference website that you can edit based on Washington, D.C. public data. We the People empowers all of us to make D.C. a more responsive community where all voices are heard and each of us can make a difference. Wikis, are by nature, works in progress. Like Wikipedia, you can link any expression to its definition or another page. If a link is red that means that a page still needs to be created. Go ahead and edit here!

App by: Chrys Tarvin

App category: Agency

Code locations: MediaWiki: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/  (mediawiki.org)  MediaWiki is free server-based software which is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  Semantic Mediawiki: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SemanticMediaWiki/   http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMW_Project  Extension:RSS:  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RSS   No license specified  Extension:Parser Functions - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions  GPL2   Extension:GoogleMaps - http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/GoogleMaps/ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Maps  No License Specified  Extension:Semantic google Maps http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SemanticGoogleMaps/     http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Semantic_Google_Maps  GPL  Pywikipediabot Framework: http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/  http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia MIT License  Extension:MultiBoilerplate   http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultiBoilerplate http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/MultiBoilerplate/     GNU General Public License 2.0 or later  Extension:Google_Geocoder http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Google_Geocoder http://mediawiki-google-geocoder.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/     GPL  Extension:EmbedVideo  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmbedVideo http://jimbojw.com/wiki/index.php?title=EmbedVideo_Extension  MIT License

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6 comments to...
“We The People Wiki”
Lucy Collins
November 12th, 2008

Appso8…very cool. Brilliant idea!


Tom Sullivan
November 13th, 2008

cool


Barbara G.
November 13th, 2008

This is a great example of the use of open, semantic technologies to further the collaboration between administrations and citizens. Thousands of pages of content and many interesting features. Wow.


Andrew Ellicott
November 13th, 2008

Just made a map of all the recent Bike Thefts in DC and a timeline of the thefts in my old neighborhood! very cool! definitely going to play with it some more!

http://www.wethepeoplewiki.com/wiki/index.php/User:Aellicott


PJD
November 13th, 2008

This is a great site/idea and an excellent example of how wikis can be used for the greater public good.


Participation Camp, NYC: Open Government, Open Organizations, Open Collaboration, Open Data, and Apps For Democracy | UgoTrade
July 10th, 2009

[...] were in a certain sector of the city. Another really interesting application that was developed was “We the People Wiki,” and if you go to wethepeoplewiki.com you can see it. What it does is it creates all in one place [...]




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