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Gotham Gazette

299 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10007
www.gothamgazette.com

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Gotham Gazette is a Web site about the issues facing New York City, published each weekday by the Citizens Union Foundation of the City of New York, the non-profit research and education affiliate of a good-government group that dates back to 1897. Gotham Gazette is a daily digest of news about New York City; a news operation in itself; a policy magazine; and a reference tool for students and serious researchers alike.

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"II am really grateful for this opportunity to work in Gotham Gazette, from which I leant what it is like to work in a nonprofit organization, what it is like to work in NYC, and, mostly important, hanging out with SIers over 600 miles away from Ann Arbor. We are traveling! "
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Councilpedia

Interns: Jeremy Canfield, Nan Chen

Code: Gotham-01

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We are working on developing a project called "Councilpedia" -- an encyclopedia of money in politics in New York City that will invite readers to help us identify connections between political donors in NYC. We're planning to start work on Councilpedia later in the summer but would love to sit down with some SI students assess what is available and develop a workable structure for the project that will make good use of MediaWiki's capacity for templated content segments.

Qualification: web applicable information architecture skills familiarity with wikipedia basic familiarity with programming skills basic comfort reading documentation and researching and testing software options should be sufficient. We can easily adapt to accomodate someone significantly more skilled in either mysql/php programming in general or MediaWiki software in particular.

The SI Alternative Spring Break is open to graduate students of the University of Michigan's School of Information. Undergraduates looking for Alternative Spring Break opportunities should look into the University of Michigan Alternative Spring Break program administered by U-M's Ginsberg Center.