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/
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Luca Martinelli
EveryPolitician Community manager