{"id":9459,"date":"2019-10-24T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T10:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:21:59","slug":"help-needed-community-curation-of-political-parties-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/2019\/10\/help-needed-community-curation-of-political-parties-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Help needed: community curation of political parties in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good news, we are expanding the <a href=\"https:\/\/poliflw.nl\/\">PoliFLW<\/a> to Europe! We need your help to do it right, though. Read on how you can help bringing political news closer to journalists and citizens.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\nWhat is PoliFLW<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poliflw.nl\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PoliFLW<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an interactive online platform that allows journalists and citizens to stay informed, and keep up to date with the growing group of political parties and politicians relevant to them &#8211; even those whose opinions they don&#8217;t directly share.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By aggregating the news political parties share on their website PoliFLW makes finding hyperlocal, national and European political news relevant to the individual far easier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right now, we are at the stage where we want to expand from beyond the Netherlands by adding news shared by parties in the European Parliament and national parties in all EU member states, showcasing what it can mean for access to information in Europe.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plus, there will be a built-in translation function, making it easier to read news across country borders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9303\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9303\" src=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/10\/action-artificial-intelligence-device-595804-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"Two small cardboard robots being happy\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/action-android-device-electronics-595804\/\">by Matan Segev from Pexels<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why we need your help<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have found 268 relevant parties to include in the European version PoliFLW. We found them through Wikipedia, election websites and some good old fashioned internet search. But we want to know whether we have them all and whether we have the right location for their news sources, before we built scrapers to get news from the wrong sites. That is where you come in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How you can help<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We created a handy way (if we do say so ourselves) for you to check whether we have the correct information for the country you know the political parties from. You can find the handy document <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10uv0dFgO7GWoBLynFH0KABz504KDXKR5pEG8N3X50q8\/edit#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Depending on how many national political parties your country has, you can be done within 5 minutes, or it can take to up to 20 minutes. You are not obligated to do the whole country, and can take a break at any time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You would really help us out here, so please &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/10uv0dFgO7GWoBLynFH0KABz504KDXKR5pEG8N3X50q8\/edit#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">check whether we have the right information<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This will help journalists, researchers and concerned citizens across the EU stay up to date with political news.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news, we are expanding the PoliFLW to Europe! We need your help to do it right, though. Read on how you can help bringing political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/2019\/10\/help-needed-community-curation-of-political-parties-in-the-eu\/\">Lees meer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":9460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[531],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poliflw-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9461,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions\/9461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openstate.eu\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}