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 ;-)
- d.