Search: Use aliases endpoint of our API [draft issue]

[kevinashworth]

Overview

When user searches for 'hack-for-la' vs 'hackforla' we'd want to respond equally well to both searches. The 'aliases' endpoint of our API is for this purpose.

Action Items

• Aliases for orgs must be identified
• https://api.civictechindex.org/api/aliases/ must be updated
• https://api-stage.civictechindex.org/api/aliases/ must be updated

Resources/Instructions

Our API swagger page: https://api-stage.civictechindex.org/swagger/

Back-end issue: https://github.com/civictechindex/CTI-website-backend/issues/37

Google Sheet:
Old Sheet
New Sheet

Documents

• Japan:
  • Google Sheet
  • https://www.code4japan.org/brigade

[kevindphan]

@bruceplai Hey Bruce, do you think you can provide a little guidance on this issue? We would like to have a more clear understanding of this issue before it gets assigned.

[bruceplai]

@bruceplai Hey Bruce, do you think you can provide a little guidance on this issue? We would like to have a more clear understanding of this issue before it gets assigned.

I think the aliases API was originally meant for the Search Projects page. For example if the user searches for "hack4la" then we could compare that against data returned by the API and then find that "hack-for-la" is likely the tag that projects are being associated with on github. Then the query to the github project search API would be updated to "hack-for-la" and we would see some actual search results instead of a "sorry no results found" message.

I'm not sure how we would come up with all possible aliases (or at least most aliases) that a user could enter for every single org tag, but that data should be compiled and entered into the following admin pages to make the aliases API useful

https://api.civictechindex.org/api/aliases/
https://api-stage.civictechindex.org/api/aliases/

[ladissi]

@DrIffathsultana please provide alias URL

[DrIffathsultana]

@ladissi Do you mean the list of Alias - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JW3LLctjRq9K-AHgg6gmGmod_ge22Lk3Jxmk_9KKDl8/edit#gid=0

[smsada]

Issue is Dependent on

• Create Script to Transfer Data from one sheet to the other #1036

[smsada]

• Code for Sweden's GitHub seems to be the only GitHub the organization uses across their children (CIVIC TECH GÖTEBORG, CIVIC TECH STOCKHOLM, CIVIC TECH UPPSALA)
  • Could not find individual organizations on github for each of these child organizations
  • Going through their github I can't find any of their projects.

Bonnie's note: I am going to point to https://github.com/civictechsweden for all of them, but we will end up defining a separate tag for each one. That way, their results page will be customized to which of them people are looking at.

[bribenn]

Code for Australia's GitHub has a lot of repos and is part of code for all

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

• Name of Parent org: g0v
  • location: Taiwan
  • website: http://g0v.tw/
  • GitHub: https://github.com/g0v
  • GitHub label: g0v
  • Name of child org: Copernicani
    • location: Italy
    • website: http://copernicani.it/
    • GitHub: https://github.com/g0v-it
  • Name of child org: g0vhk
    • location: Hong Kong
    • website: http://g0vhk.io/ (no longer in service)
    • GitHub: https://github.com/g0vhk-io
    • GitHub label: g0vhk

It's unclear how this website is different from http://g0v.tw/ (g0v.tw has more information on it, including slack and Facebook channels)

• website: https://g0v.asia/
• location:
• GitHub: https://github.com/g0v

[smsada]

Current Progress on this:

• Auditing the Code for Japan child organizations here for contact information and socials