yOn Tue, 20 Dec 2005, David Gerard wrote:
James Hardy wrote:
On 07/12/05, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Let me say that one startlingly important thing we can do is to double-check and make sure *every* politician above the dog-catcher level in the UK has a decent-quality article. (This one does.)
If we wanted to do this, and needed to create a whole bunch of them (which is likely) then we could probably seed it with information from the people at mySociety who run http://writetothem.com/ as they already the names, party affiliations and location of constiuancy on all the councillors, MPs, MSPs, MEPs and AMs (both types) in the country. If we were able to get a database dump from them then it wouldn't take long to write a little script to create these automatically fairly easily, manually tweaking them / wikifying them / ensuring no duplicates as they go up.
And writing them to a standard that means they don't end up speedied or AFDed by overenthusiastic cleansers ;-)
Might then be an idea to dump into userspace and then move to article space when wikified.
Would the people at theyworkforyou.com be worth arpoaching for somthign similar they hold a whole bunch of stuff on voting records (or would that be a better fit on wikisource?)
Chris (aka Thryduulf)