add membercount

[Fafrin]

I think it would be cool, if the parties would also have a membercount available.
Also some sort of indication of legal-status (i.e. registered political party, legal person, etc. would be nice)

[collentine]

member-count is not transparent in most Pirate Parties. Thus it would be too hard to collect and keep current. If most Pirate Parties had a member count that was scrapable this would be feasible.

Legal-status is not a good measurement since countries are too different in political aspects. e.g. Sweden doesn't really need any legality to have a political party whilst Russia does and the PP there is being blocked from getting it. Too hard to collect and make a useful comparison between different countries but thanks for suggestion

[PeterTheOne]

I would like to have the membership count in there.

PPAT has public membercount, but we also have different membership statuses: member, paying member, verified member, paying and verified member. (Only paying and verified can vote.) This makes it a bit complicated. But we can say that we see members only voting members.

Maybe we can standardize this legal status thing somehow, like: can-legally-take-part-in-elections (true/false), legal-person (true/false).

See also: http://www.piraten-statistiken.de/ .

[Fafrin]

I realized, that if we want tu use it as basic registry for PPI and PPEU, we would also like to know number of elected representatives. That is quite public and mesurable thing, no?

[Putr]

I think that legal status is relevant (as it's a stepping stone), but that also requires "activeSince" - these two data points clearly show which parties have a hard time getting registered.

So, we would need:

• activeSince: datetime, optonal
• legalPerson: true/false, optional
• canRunForOffice: true/false, optional

As far as memeber count goes. For this to work parties would have to publish and API via which I can scrape the dataset to publish it on the site. Not only that, not all parties WISH to publish their member numbers.
While I'm fine with having an entry that only some parties use (and display it), it should probably be more than one party and it should be reliable.

[Fafrin]

PP-CZ has an APi and will give out its membercount.

[Fafrin]

• activeUntil