What about if we simply did a politics themed editathon after the election when the results had come in and we had something to work with?
On 21 April 2017 at 16:30, Ed Hand edwardxx@gmail.com wrote:
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
An AfD was started the next day, and the article was deleted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_ deletion/Rosena_Allin-Khan
After she won, the article was reinstated. If I had just done that article as a draft, there would have been no need for an AfD.
Edward Hands
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