I think there are three options, 1) an editathon in the run up to the election, possibly with Full Fact, to try to ensure Wikipedia contains accurate information about the main Parties, key politicians etc, 2) An editathon on the day/night of the election - although I appreciate Ed's point about the practicalities of that given that results come in overnight, or 3) an event following the election when we will have the results to work with. I do wonder if people might have a bit of election fatigue afterwards? Or perhaps that's just me and Brenda. If there are any trainers/volunteers who are particularly interested, do let us know. All best, Lucy

On 21 April 2017 at 18:15, John Lubbock <john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
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.

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