WikiPeople

Objective: to have a page for every politician/company owner in which you can see their:

1) personal timeline (studies, jobs, investments, board memberships) 2) relations: who they are acquainted with (family, politicians, company owners, public servants)

Project principles

• Aggregate info, not create info: all information comes from public and trusted sources (newspapers, official announcements, public registries).
• Distributed info gathering: Anyone can contribute, Wikipedia style

Possible structure

• An aggregation of facts, every fact is an event which consists of
  • date
  • persons involved
  • institutions involved
  • relation

Data sources

Every event should be referenced with in the fashion of Wikipedia's references, so the system would only be aggregating already public info, not publishing any info for which to be accounted for. In Wikipedia spirit, this would also facilitate that anyone could contribute info to the project as publishing rules would be clearly stated.

Example/mockup person page/events

• Santiago Menéndez
  • becomes director of the AEAT on 2013-06-28, named by Cristobal Montoro
  • becomes director of the ONIF on 2013-01-28, named by Cristobal Montoro
  • is son of XXX
  • is brother of XXX

Project data relationships

Data in this project would be an extension of information in another sources, namely Wikipedia. ToDo research: see if this would be suitable for WikiData.

Similar projects

ToDo

• Sunlight Foundation?
• WikiData about people?

Ideally:

• Track money involved in the event, if present (money received/given)