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Add an in situ glossary to provide definitions for campaign finance terms

Open adborden opened this issue 7 years ago • 6 comments

Something like the 18F glossary where terms can be highlighted in situ. When clicking the terms, the glossary flies out to show the definition.

screenshot from 2018-09-06 13-36-29

adborden avatar Sep 06 '18 19:09 adborden

https://www.foia.gov/ has a good example. It uses the 18F glossary that depends on jquery, but that's okay for now.

I particularly like how the glossary terms are defined in markdown, since they are content and should be easy for copy editors to tweak and edit.

adborden avatar Sep 06 '18 20:09 adborden

@jenny-heath Here's a start: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tZpNzsKY_CQO4R52MoWAlGtbyufl_2eQ2yN8L3szg1Q/edit?usp=sharing

This is a CA Civic Lab glossary that I worked on in 2016. It still needs work, but it can get you started.

sfdoran avatar Oct 29 '18 22:10 sfdoran

FYI there is also this glossary which is an older version than the google doc https://github.com/caciviclab/caciviclab.github.io/wiki/Glossary

-- Aaron D Borden Human and Hacker

adborden avatar Oct 30 '18 21:10 adborden

Here is the CA secretary of state's glossary of CA campaign technical terms: https://www.sos.ca.gov/campaign-lobbying/cal-access-resources/cal-access-users-manual/glossary/

sfdoran avatar Oct 30 '18 21:10 sfdoran

Hello thread,

@jenny-heath sorry for stealing/hogging the ball on this issue. It was my mistake to work on it but not update issue weeks back. The glossary is currently a WIP and there is plenty to do! Three new issues have been born from this original glossary task.

Looking forward to knocking those out in the future as a team ;)

jessecodescode avatar Nov 14 '18 17:11 jessecodescode

Proposed mock-ups for https://github.com/caciviclab/odca-jekyll/issues/290 are here: https://invis.io/M3PL9PAY8XP

elinaru avatar Dec 12 '18 15:12 elinaru