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Article Evaluation
this is for notes about observations and learnings

Article I'm evaluating: Internews
 * Missing some citations
 * could use more information in the lead section to give readers more information about what internews is
 * cites official websites which is a poor source
 * some citations missing, empty, or incomplete
 * contains content that is written like an advertisement
 * needs additional citations for verification
 * talk page discusses modifications made to external links and mentions that edits to this article have suggested that the US Government has control over Internews content

Topic Ideas
FireChat:

This article has been classified as a stub. In the Talk page, people are discussing how this article does not follow the NPOV rules because it is critiquing Firechat. I think that more information needs to be added to all the existing sections. The infobox could be expanded to possibly include dates, number of users, etc. More visuals should also be included. The security section needs to be edited because it consists of one quote from a magazine article from the Firechat developers which presents both a bias and uses and unreliable source.

Civic Technology Companies:

This article is under "Unassessed technology articles". It needs more information in the lead section. A big improvement would be taking all the Civic Tech companies that it lists and creating a table to compare them since merely listing them provides no actual information to readers. The table could include information such as number of users, whether or not is open source, and how it is funded.

Chilling effect:

This article is marked as high importance but rated as start-class on the quality scale. This could be improved by presenting a more global view of the subject as opposed to presenting a bias towards the US.

My Article
I am planning on creating a chart of all the current Civic Technology platforms so viewers can easily compare them. There is currently no existing Wikipedia article on this so this will be a new article. It will include information on things such as funding, whether or not it is open source, and what kind of technology it runs on. This will be different from many typical Wikipedia articles since it is a chart and not a traditional written article. I want to make sure the information is accurate so it needs to be collected and consistent across various sources which i'm predicting to be the hardest part of this assignment.

Possible sources
http://www.govtech.com/100/

https://civicactions.com/work/

Bachen, Christine, et al. “Civic Engagement, Pedagogy, and Information Technology on Web Sites for Youth.” Political Communication, vol. 25, no. 3, 2008, pp. 290–310., doi:10.1080/10584600802197525.

Article Draft
(Now working on my draft in Aura's Sandbox) Right now there is an article about Civic Technology which we will link but it does not include any comparison which is why we want to create this. We will also provide some background information on civic tech platforms. The goal is to make civic tech platforms very easy to compare visually with important factors such as name, creator, release date, business model, type of technology etc. It will also compare specific categories such as campaigns, government, or voting.