ICYMI *Edward Saperia* Dean of Newspeak House <http://www.nwspk.com> newsletter <http://www.tinyletter.com/edsaperia> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: &lt;emily(a)mysociety.org&gt; Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 16:37 Subject: [mySociety-community] New Wikiproject Proposal/Wikidata post-election updating toolkit To: mysociety-community &lt;mysociety-community(a)mysociety.org&gt; Hello everyone — We at mySociety have posted a new Wikiproject proposal for a 2019 project grant: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updat…. We need your feedback and comments on the project. What we’ve done — and what we want to do Wikidata now has up-to-date and consistent data on political position holders in current national legislatures for at least 39 countries <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/mySociety/EveryPolitician/Final#Targets> (and work in progress for over 60 countries), thanks to work by volunteer community members on the Wikiproject every politician. mySociety worked as part of this project with a Wikimedia Foundation grant in 2017-18. There is now a real possibility for Wikidata to become the definitive source of data about democracies worldwide — but only if that data can be maintained sustainably. A significant risk is that elections and other major political changes quickly render data on political position holders and legislatures in Wikidata out-of-date. We’re proposing a Wikidata post-election updating toolkit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updating_toolkit> project, which aims to ensure that data on elected representatives is substantially correct and complete within a month following an election, leading to improved quality and consistency of data in Wikidata over time. We’ll work as part of the Wikidata community to create and signpost tools and pathways that help contributors to quickly, easily and consistently update data following an election or other political change. How community members can get involved in the project If you’re already active around data relevant to political position holders, legislatures, or elections in Wikidata, we’d like your feedback and help to test the new tools and guidance and ensure that they are consistent with the emerging consensus around modelling these types of data. In particular, if you live in a country or major region that has an upcoming election, please talk to us about piloting the tools! We’d like for you to test the project tools and guidance to update data following your country’s election, and to give us feedback on the value and appropriateness of the approach in your context and political system. In general, we’re keen to encourage discussion and evaluation of Wikidata as a source of current position holder data. Please review our proposal If you’re interested in this, and are active on Wiki projects, please have a look and review our proposal here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikidata_post-election_updat… Thanks! ~Emily Emily Robertson-Knowlton Delivery Manager mySociety -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mysociety-community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mysociety-community+unsubscribe(a)mysociety.org. To post to this group, send email to mysociety-community(a)mysociety.org. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/group/mysociety-community/. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/msgid/mysociety-community/7c507… <https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/msgid/mysociety-community/7c507404-9cdf-4af0-9699-fc91f3e6a4aa%40mysociety.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/a/mysociety.org/d/optout.