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An app to visualize protests against the CAA in India

Home Page: https://www.caaprotests.info/

License: MIT License

HTML 4.01% CSS 17.89% JavaScript 78.10%

caaprotests's Introduction

Law makers, law breakers

Law makers, law breakers is a citizen led project that aims to objectively document field evidence of democratic protest against the state and the state’s response to it.

Genuine submissions of unedited videos, photos and objective reporting documenting the protests in India and the world against the CAA & NRC are solicited from the public and curated as per the content policy.

Contributing

Volunteers are invited to contribute to any of the following tasks:

Content curation and fact checking
Site UX and design
Web development

Get in touch on twitter @mycountryawake or email [email protected] or directly report an issue

Development

The app is built using create-react-app, has a firebase database and deployed on Heroku. See the project wall for issues to work on.

Clone and run the following to start the express server:

git clone https://github.com/kshivanku/CAAProtests.git
cd CAAProtests
npm install
npm run

Start the client server in a new terminal tab

cd client
npm install
npm run

Data

All content submissions go into a firebase database and fact checked for authenticity by volunteers in a google spreadsheet.

The sheet is queried via tapletop and made available to the app as a JSON API: http://caaprotests.info/getVideoData

Copyright

The previewed content is copyrighted by the original authors. No other copyright is claimed on any other content of the website.

The project code is released under MIT license.

caaprotests's People

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arjunvenkatraman adityadipankar karan100010

caaprotests's Issues

Map content to a neighbourhood level accuracy

Suggestion from https://twitter.com/roshankar/status/1214010806930567169?s=20

Currently every content item is mapped to a city coordinate, but it might be useful to locate it on the map to a neighbourhood level if its known.

This is doable, but will need some discussion of how to visualize items on the map when some of them have city level accuracy and some upto neighbourhood level?

Pulling submissions from firebase and writing to a sheet

In need of a way to collect our data from our firebase collection and push it up to a sheet stored on Drive for manual review.

Ideas for accomplishing this: Running some sort of task schedular on our server to pull and write to our sheet. May also do some processing/sanitizing of data before writing as well if needed.

Feature request - Add timeline

Great initiative!

can we please consider adding a timeline where people can filter by a date? possibly with an 'All' option as default view.

[BUG] server.js reads only the first sheet in the spreadsheet

Discovered this while making copies of the spreadsheet for development purposes.
It appears that our main source spreadsheet still works because the sheet labelled "3. Approved" is the one that was originally the first sheet in the spreadsheet.
For spreadsheets copied from the main sheet, the server can't pull correctly

Fix - to pull the "Approved" sheet by name

Working on this in fork - https://github.com/arjunvenkatraman/CAAProtests

Repository housekeeping

Add a README.md
- What the code is about
- Installation and testing instructions
Update Github project description and url
Add an issue template to report issues with any content. See also #5

cc @kshivanku

Add known protest locations to the map

There is a comprehensive data of protest events around the world by https://www.acleddata.com thats update weekly.

Have exported the location of 1026 protest events for India with the citizenship keyword: https://github.com/kshivanku/CAAProtests/blob/master/RawData/acled-india-citizenship-protests.csv

It contains some very interesting metadata about every event including a descrition, media source, different actors involved and if it was peaceful.

Next steps

We need some ideas on how to integrate this data with the current UI.

cc @adityadipankar

Add ability to report or provide feedback on content

We should have a way for users to submit feedback on particular content:

for improvement of captions/article link
to report content that might be incorrect or fake

Possible solutions

Have a general submit feedback link that takes a user to https://github.com/kshivanku/CAAProtests/issues . Requires users to have a github account to open a issue 👎. Might be sufficient for launch but would need a better mechanism if there is traction.
Every submission has a submit feedback link. This opens a form similar to the submission form for the user to describe the issue.

cc @kshivanku @mojoarjun @adityadipankar

[sheet] Record timestamp for submission of entries

The sheet used to review links should have the timestamp of when the entry was submitted. This helps to provide some context on the recency of the submitted links to the reviewer.