This is the readme to contribute to the votetracker.eu project.

I can start translating to European languages I don't know with A.I. but I'd like to have human validations.
If you are eager to check a translation, please contact me at , I will send you the necessary file. Thank you

To add translations, run

django-admin makemessages --no-wrap --locale <locale id like "fr" or "en">

It will generate a .po file in the locale directory. The translation are to be written inside the quotes of the msgstr "". Look also for the fuzzy keyword that point to unclear translations. The % that you can find is the html code for %. Use % instead of %, which is a mess to use here. When it is translated, add the language code in the LANGUAGES variable in settings.py

Then run

django-admin compilemessages

Restart the server and check everything is ok. Do the merge request. Thanks :-)

It is built with python django. The database is needed because MEPs have the ability to add comments on their stances (when they will be invited to).

If you use conda:

conda create --name django5 python=3.11
conda activate django5

Otherwise see here

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

In the yvm_site folder, add a .env file with this content:

MODE=DEV
ALLOWED_HOSTS=.localhost
DB_ENGINE=<mysql or postgresql>
DATABASE_NAME=<you named it when creating the db in phpmyadmin>
DATABASE_USER=<you named it when creating the db in phpmyadmin>
DATABASE_PASSWORD=<you named it when creating the db in phpmyadmin>
DATABASE_PORT=<usually 3306 for mysql, 5432 for postgresql>
MEP_INITIAL_PASSWORD=<it will be used in populate_mep_table.py>
SECRET_KEY=<a very long secret key of your choice>

Add .env in your .gitignore

Download ep_meps.json.lz and ep_votes.json.lz on parltrack. Unzip them in the already existing parltrack_data folder

Run :

python populate_mep_table.py
python populate_vote_and_position_tables.py

Then

python manage.py runserver

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