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