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Series: Civics
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Date: 2015-08-01
Tags: website opendata

At Code for America's Civic Hack night, I joined the team, and something that came up in conversation was the liveliness of sites.

And people point to GitHub commits as an easy way to tell if code has been updated.

But what about forks? GitHub does that pretty well too.

But what about deployed versions of those forks, across different jurisdictions at different levels of government, scattered across the United States?


Being able to see the "author" of a webpage is easy enough. The tag exists.

But is it updated? Rarely.


What about a small script, available on websites, that have that information. Who to contact, and perhaps, how to give feedback.

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