Election Night Editathon(s?) - Wikimediauk-l

13 Apr 2015

Hi all,

If you are one of those people who like to stay up on election night
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2015>as all
the results come in, you might like to consider joining us in the General
Election 2015 Editathon.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/General_Election_2015_Editathon>

So far we have started off booking the basement at Development House, where
Wikimedia is based, but it would be great to hear of other initiatives by
Wikimedians getting together to help update hundreds of pages, and indeed
we there will also be new pages to create.

Of course others might like to participate from the comfort of their own
homes.

With 650 constituencies producing results, new MPs elected and a need for
new infographic images there is a large amount of work to do. Wouldn't it
be great if we could make sure that when people google about the results on
the morning of 8th May, they get up-to-date verified information.

If we are to get anywhere near this goal, a certain amount of preparation
is needed, identifying pages likely to need updating, and working out how
to avoid edit conflicts etc.

Look at the 2010 election map
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2010UKElectionMap.svg> and how it
changed during the night!

Anyway, nominations closed at the end of last week, so now is the best time
to start co-ordinating how we can cover this election.

Please add comments to the talk page here
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Meetups/UK/General_Election_2015_Editathon>
.

all the best

Fabian Tompsett,
Volunteer Support Organiser,
Wikimedia UK,
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