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More police forces should publish web pages about wildlife crime officers

Posted on 16 August 2010 by Andy Mabbett

A crowd-sourced list of UK Police Forces’ wildlife crime pages has too many gaps. They could do better, and we should encourage them to. Continue reading →

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Posted in annoyances, nature, social media | Tagged BirdGuides, BTO, CharlesArthur, Coldean, CountCulture, crime, crowdsourcing, FatBirder, Google Docs, guardian, Lancashire Constabulary, LocalDirectGov, Merseyside Police, North Yorkshire Police, Northumbria Police, open data, OpenlyLocal, Podnosh, police, RDF, RSPB, Staffordshire Police, twitter, twitter:user=CharlesArthur, Twitter:user=CountCulture, Twitter:user=Podnosh, Warwickshire Police, West Midland Bird Club, wildlife, wildlife crime, XML | 10 Comments

My Open Data Challenge to UK Local Government: a Wikipedia Page for Every Council

Posted on 16 July 2010 by Andy Mabbett

An open data problem experienced by OpenlyLocal could be solved if staff from each UK council simply started a Wikipedia article about their council, where none already exists. Continue reading →

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Posted in ideas, local government, web standards, Wikipedia | Tagged Birmingham, CountCulture, dbpedia, egov, Lichfield, local government, localgovweb, open data, OpenlyLocal, Pezholio, Twitter:user=CountCulture, Twitter:user=pezholio, Walsall, wikipedia | 9 Comments
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