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 <edwar...@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. > > Edward Hands > > > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > Virus-free. > www.avast.com > <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail> > <#m_822427799262335566_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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