README.md

Welcome to Civiwiki

We are an open-source, non-profit community, working to develop a democratic engagement web system.

Why CiviWiki?

• Democratically Contributed Media. As the name CiviWiki implies, our core content will be contributed by volunteers on our Wiki. Our topic format is modular. The structure allows both a community of volunteers to collaborate on a single political issue and reserves space for dissenting opinions.
• Personalized Policy Feed. CiviWiki intelligently personalizes users' feed in two meaningful ways. First, the issues promoted to users' feed will be personalized to the user's expressed interests, and the timeliness of the issue. Second, the structure of the issue topics breaks policy positions into bite-sized contentions we call Civies. Each Civi is logically related to the rest of the topic. Based on the user's support, opposition, or neutrality to each Civi, CiviWiki promotes different relevant content.
• Citizen/Representative Engagement. CiviWiki's core goal is to engage citizens and their representatives, with the goal of making government more accountable. CiviWiki will achieve this goal in two ways. First, CiviWiki will organize the user's policy profile and compare it to every political candidate in the user's district. This quick, detailed, comparison will help users make informed votes, and we believe increased voter confidence will increase voter turnout. Second, CiviWiki will collect anonymized user data and forward district-level statistics to representatives. With a critical mass of users, we believe timely district-level polling data will influence representatives' votes.

Contact info

Contact us on Twitter to join the team.

Join us on the following channels:

• development discussions on Loomio
• videos of our weekly planning meetings on Internet Archive
• live chat on Matrix
• @CiviWiki on Twitter

Contribute

See our Contributing Guide for instructions on how to contribute ideas, bug reports and code code.

Contributors

Thanks to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Abhi 💻	Abhijith Ganesh 💻 📆 📖	Ahmed Nassar 💻 🚇	Alan Calvillo 👀	Alec Sears 🐛	Aniket Banyal 📖 💻	Ankan Das 📖
Anshu Jindal 📖	Anthony B. 💻	Brian Painter 💻	Brylie Christopher Oxley 💻 🐛 📆 👀 📖 🚇 🚧	Caio Shimada Rabello 💻	Dan Borstelmann 💻 🐛 🚇 🤔	Daniel Grijalva 💻
Daniel Larner 💻	Darcy Meyer 💻	Darius Calliet 💻 🐛 🤔	Di-ref 💻	Gordon Stangler 💻 🐛 🤔	Gustavo 💻	Harsha Vardhan 💻
Hush 💻 📖	Ikko Ashimine 💻	JDRanpariya 📖 💻	Jabriel Jones 💻	Jacob North 💻	Jake Strang 💻	Javier Martínez 💻
Jithen Shriyan 💻	Jon Ander Oribe 💻 🐛	JooHee Lee 💻 🐛 📖 🤔 🚇 💬	Jourdon Floyd 📖	Loukik Bhangale 💻	Maryam Yusuf 💻	Md. Fardeen Ehsan Shawon 📖
Mitchell D. West 💻 🐛 💼 💵 🔍 🤔 📆 👀 📖	Obafemi Joseph Olorungbon 💻	Paul Scheid 💻 🤔 💬	Petar Petrov ⚠️	Petar Petrov ⚠️	Rohit Ramesh 💻	Ryan Barrett 💻
Shadyaobuya 💻	Shashank KS 💻	Shaunak 💻	Shourya Shikhar 📖	Shrys 🤔 🐛	Soumallya Dev 💻	Stanley Ndagi 📖
Steven Hitchcock 💻	Steven Hitchcock 💻	Swanand01 💻	Tom John Hall 💻	Tomasz Kolek 💻 ⚠️ 🛡️ 👀	Torab Shaikh 💻	Trac Taylor 💻 🐛 🤔
UMAIR MOHAMMAD 💻	Vishal D A 💻 🖋 🌍	WCollins3 💻	Xin Tan 📓	delta-plus 💻 🐛 📖 🤔 💬	gorkemarslan 💻 ⚠️	gteti 📖
jgbmattos 📓	max1204 💻	richifuentes 🐛 💬 🤔	tberm 💻	terrencetuy 💻	wassaf shahzad 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

Testing

See our Testing Guide for instructions on how to test code.