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European Party Funding Observatory Wikibase

This wikibase is developed to be the future data system of the European Party Funding Observatory (EPFO).

This database is currently being developed and is therefore not the current reference of the EPFO. The current dataset of the EPFO can be found at https://epfo.eu/dataset.

Our objectives

The goal of the European Party Funding Observatory and of its dataset is to improve transparency on European parties and their funding.

The EPFO leverages public data from official EU sources to help answer citizens’ questions concerning European parties and their funding:

• How much money do European parties receive?
• How much taxpayers’ money?
• Who else funds them?
• From which countries do these funds originate?
• How is all this evolving over time? And how is this money spent?

Progress report

The EPFO Wikibase will progressively be filled with data from the EPFO's existing dataset.

Here is a summary of where this import work stands:

• ✅ Creation of Wikibase and essential pages
• ✅ Creation of core relational properties (has parts, instance of, etc.)
• ✅ Creation of wikibase-specific properties (lump sum, mep-based funding, etc.)
• ✅ Creation of European parties as items
• ✅ Creation of political groups of the European parliament as items
• ✅ Creation of political ideologies as items
• ✅ Creation of member states as items
• ✅ Import of European party core data (name, ideology, APPF registration, etc.)
• ✅ Import of member state core data (population, number of MEPs over time)
• ⚠️ Import of electoral results (source missing)
• ❌ Import of individual membership with sources
• ❌ Import of MEP membership with sources
• ❌ Import of public funding with sources
• ❌ Import of donations and contributions with sources
• ❌ Import of audit data with sources
• ❌ Import of sources for core party information, where relevant
• ❌ Import of European political foundations as items
• ❌ Using wikibase as source for EPFO website

Additional Resources

In this section there are several resources that can help you understand the MediaWiki and Wikibase ecosystems.

• Wikibase/DataModel/Primer: An introduction to the Wikibase data model
• SPARQL crash course using the Wikidata Query Service
• MediaWiki main page
• Wikibase main page
• Meta, where we show our working.

Suggested citation

To cite data from the European Party Funding Observatory Wikibase, please use the following format:

• European Party Funding Observatory Wikibase (https://wikibase.epfo.eu/wiki/Item:QXX, DATE ACCESSED), LABEL, IDENTIFIER.
  • For example: European Party Funding Observatory Wikibase (https://wikibase.epfo.eu/wiki/Item:Q21, 01 January 2023), Volt Europa, Q21.

To cite the project and website as a whole please use the following format:

• European Democracy Consulting Stiftung, European Party Funding Observatory Wikibase (https://wikibase.epfo.eu, 2024).

Subsequent citation might be shortened to:

• EPFO Wikibase.

Acknowledgements

We thank Wikimedia Deutschland for developing, maintaining, and supporting this vital infrastructure.

Publisher Declaration

This wiki is published by the European Democracy Consulting Stiftung. We are legally responsible for its content.