I think there are three options, 1) an editathon in the run up to the
election, possibly with Full Fact, to try to ensure Wikipedia contains
accurate information about the main Parties, key politicians etc, 2) An
editathon on the day/night of the election - although I appreciate Ed's
point about the practicalities of that given that results come in
overnight, or 3) an event following the election when we will have the
results to work with. I do wonder if people might have a bit of election
fatigue afterwards? Or perhaps that's just me and Brenda. If there are any
trainers/volunteers who are particularly interested, do let us know. All
best, Lucy
On 21 April 2017 at 18:15, John Lubbock <john.lubbock(a)wikimedia.org.uk>
wrote:
What about if we simply did a politics themed
editathon after the election
when the results had come in and we had something to work with?
On 21 April 2017 at 16:30, Ed Hand <edwardxx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thinking back to the editathon we ran at the time
of the last election,
there was quite a long wait until much in the way of new MPs were elected,
and by that time people were tired and/or enthusiasm had waned.
There will be a number of candidates for safe seats for whom we can start
draft pages in anticipation of their election being announced later that
evening/morning. If we could identify such candidates ahead of time, then
editors would have something worthwhile to do whilst we await the actual
constituency results.
By way of example, anticipating a very likely Labour victory in the 2016
Tooting by-election after Sadiq Khan stood down to become mayor, I started
an article on the Labour candidate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosena_Allin-Khan
An AfD was started the next day, and the article was deleted:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio
n/Rosena_Allin-Khan
After she won, the article was reinstated. If I had just done that
article as a draft, there would have been no need for an AfD.
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