To be locally based lackeys for WMF. We don't give them money, we give them useful assistance of a form yet to be specifically determined. Also, the chapter will have headed paper and a familiar name, which has the potential for interesting applications in the door-opening line.
I was speaking to a politician a few days ago about what I do with myself. 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.)
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- d.
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.)
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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.
-- James Hardy (aka MrWeeble)
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 ;-)
- d.
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)
Chris McKenna wrote:
Might then be an idea to dump into userspace and then move to article space when wikified.
Don't put it in article space until it's ready, no!
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?)
Could be!
- d.
On 12/21/05, Chris McKenna cmckenna@sucs.org wrote:
Would the people at theyworkforyou.com be worth arpoaching for somthign similar they hold a whole bunch of stuff on voting records
I've been in contact with them before and I'm sure they would be interested in this. They're well aware of Wikipedia - see http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2005-12-19a.1581.0 for an example of them linking automatically to Wikipedia.
Angela.
At 14:04 +1100 21/12/05, Angela wrote:
On 12/21/05, Chris McKenna cmckenna@sucs.org wrote:
Would the people at theyworkforyou.com be worth arpoaching for somthign similar they hold a whole bunch of stuff on voting records
I've been in contact with them before and I'm sure they would be interested in this. They're well aware of Wikipedia - see http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2005-12-19a.1581.0 for an example of them linking automatically to Wikipedia.
Angela.
We find....
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BBC
Does you mean Stefan Magdalinski?
Stefan was at the November 27th meeting in London. He came late, and had a meeting with Jimbo.
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