Hi everybody! I'm [[User:Sannita]], probably you already saw me around as an admin and contributor, but today I'd like to introduce myself as the new EveryPolitician project Community manager. :)
EveryPolitician is a mySociety[1] project, currently funded by Wikimedia Foundation,[2] that aims to integrate data from the EveryPolitician project[3] and/or other reliable sources, as well as to come up with a suitable structure within Wikidata to encourage consistency of modelling of political data.
My main task will be to involve people to become active on Wikidata, to learn how to use the various tools we already have (from gadgets to external tools such as QuickStatements, Mix 'n' Match, PetScan, and so on) and to actively reuse data from the project to build New Fantastic Tools™.
So, if you're interested in sorting out electoral/political data from your home country, or define data models to help other users compiling this kind of items, or you have an idea about how to visualise data, just {{Ping}} me, and I'll be glad to help. :) We're also planning events to add, fix, enrich and reuse data - the very first will be held in London after Wikimania, and I really hope to come back to you with more info ASAP.
Also, I'll be around at Wikimania all week, so feel free to tap me on the shoulder if you wish. :)
Thank you and hope to see you around soon!
[1] https://www.mysociety.org/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/mySociety/EveryPolitician [3] https://www.mysociety.org/democracy/everypolitician/