yOn Tue, 20 Dec 2005, David Gerard wrote:
James Hardy wrote:
On 07/12/05, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)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)
--
Chris 'Awkward' McKenna
cmckenna(a)sucs.org
www.sucs.org/~cmckenna
The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes,
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