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This is an attempt to remake the wiki in a more 'encyclopedic' fashion, as suggested by the very wise Simon Willison. (Cat Terry - updated 02/04/07)

MySociety - Overall

• MissionStatement
  What we are trying to acheive

• BigGoals
  How we hope to do this

• DesignPrinciples
  The rules by which mySociety picks, designs and builds sites

• MysocietyDevelopers
  This is who we are - read our various bio pages here. And if you're volunteering, add yourself!

• MediaCoverage
  When we've been mentioned in the press

• NiceQuotes
  Nice things people have said about us

• MySociety source code repository
  Download our source code from here

• DevelopersPage
  Information for developers; this site has CVS details

• RandomNewProjectIdeas
  If you have a project that you think we should do, add it to this list.

• DesignLinks
  Links to useful design patterns etc

Work in Progress / Drafts

• DonationsText

• DraftText
  Volunteers, please help here.

• DraftAboutUsText
  A page to work on a good, friendly, printable document explaining what mySociety does

• AnotherAboutUsText
  Here's another version of the About Us Text

• YetAnotherDraftAboutUsText

• IsochronesTextDraft

Reference - Our Websites

• FreedomOfInformation
  Our new project - in progress.

• NewTheyWorkForYou
  http://www.theyworkforyou.com/

• No10Petitions
  http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ - Petition Nr 10.

• FaxYourRepresentative
  http://www.WriteToThem.com/ - Write to any of your elected representatives in the UK. WriteToThem

• PledgeBank
  http://www.PledgeBank.com/ - Want to help a cause, but worried that your effort will make no difference?

• NeighbourhoodFixIt
  http://www.neighbourhoodfixit.com/ - Report problems in your area to your council through this site.

• YourConstituencyMailingList
  http://www.HearFromYourMP.com/ - Get email from your MP. HearFromYourMP

• NotApathetic
  http://www.NotApathetic.com/ - A 2005 election site, recording why people who weren't voting did't want to. We have loads of data that still needs analysing, so if you want to lend a hand, please do.

• YourHistoryHere
  http://www.Placeopedia.com/ and http://www.YourHistoryHere.com/ - Built to show that good geo-annotation user interfaces are possible, and to provide some open source software based on Google maps that allows syndicatation of data out, as well as in.

• HassleMe
  http://www.HassleMe.co.uk/ - Because your mother can't remind you of everything.

• DowningStreetSays
  http://www.DowningStreetSays.com/ - The searchable, emailable, annotated version of the Prime Minister's Official Spokesman's briefings

• SitesUsingGaze
  Gaze - our free gazeteer web service that helps you translate any one of three million placenames into the position on the globe. Also features killer disambiguation and population density features.

• GiveItAway
  Not in mainstream use due to similarity to other sites such as freecycle.. may be useful for some councils.

Archive

• ChristmasParty2006

• MySocietyWebSite

• BeYourParishCouncillor

• GettingOurCodeWorkingOnYourMachine

• SomeDocs