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The frontend that visualizes the information obtained from the backend. Written in Angular.
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Explanation text/link to text on top of our website #4

Closed sandervh14 closed 1 month ago

sandervh14 commented 2 months ago

I think we are missing an explanation text on top of our website's splash page, or a "❓ What does this website do?" instead, linking to an appearing explanation, either in pop-up or separate page, whatever seems to be most visually appealing and functional. :-)

idotj commented 2 months ago

@sandervh14 The explanation block was added after the Header. If you think that we need to put more text, then I will suggest to create a page "About" or similar where we can host larger paragraphs. If the current option (text after the Header) do the job I can close this issue, if not, then the creation of a new page will be needed.

sandervh14 commented 2 months ago

Detail about the about header: the data extracted not only 2024 anymore, but the full last political term ("legislatuur" in Dutch).

It would indeed be interesting to add a "more info" button to an about page. You could add there:

We believe that in a democracy, it should be transparent and easily understandable what politicians, who represent the people, voted for.

We focus on visualizing the voting behavior of the politicians in the Belgian federal parliament in the latest political term. More specifically, from the Chamber.

We do this by extracting structured data from the reports staff of the parliament wrote about the plenary gatherings, and by building a website on top that visualizes the extracted data and makes it searchable.
This way, people can interactively browse the voting behavior of the federal politicians while deciding who to vote for. Next, they can keep on monitoring after the elections whether the people they voted for are executing their promises.

We have plans to extend this project with new features. For example: automatically publishing on social media what progress has been made in parliament over the past week, or expanding the data to voting behavior also in the other Belgian governments. You can see our ideas for new features listed here (https://github.com/orgs/transparentdemocracy/projects/1/views/1).

If you have suggestions for improvement for this website, you can submit them here (https://github.com/transparentdemocracy/website/issues).
If you have suggestions for improvement related to the underlying voting data, you can submit them here (https://github.com/transparentdemocracy/voting-data).
If you feel motivated to contribute to this project, tell us what you have in mind on those pages as well, or here (https://github.com/orgs/transparentdemocracy/discussions/1).
idotj commented 1 month ago

New page added with Help/More info content

sandervh14 commented 1 month ago

Looks good! :-) Thanks!