Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-14 Thread Hector Perez
I'm also interested in improving voting records. On agreelist.org we are creating a database of who does and who does not support issues such as basic income, carbon tax, AI risks, etc. (not only politicians though), but one thing is what people say and another one what they vote. On Wed, Mar 14,

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-14 Thread Tony Bowden
On 12 March 2018 at 23:23, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Something I wish was available is the voting record, at least at a > country/state level. Knowing the politician's time in office is a great > start, but how that person voted is what really makes democracy work. This

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-13 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Yuri Astrakhan, 13/03/2018 01:23: Something I wish was available is the voting record This is available for some parliaments in open data: https://www.votewatch.eu/blog/guide-to-votewatcheu/ Or from . Federico

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-12 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Seems like they simply store it as wiki markup - https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Marco+Rubio=edit, unless they generate it from some other internal database. On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Stas Malyshev wrote: > Hi! > > > Something I wish was available is

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-12 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > Something I wish was available is the voting record, at least at a > country/state level.  Knowing the politician's time in office is a great > start, but how that person voted is what really makes democracy work. I think Ballotpedia has this data. E.g.: https://ballotpedia.org/Marco_Rubio

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-12 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Something I wish was available is the voting record, at least at a country/state level. Knowing the politician's time in office is a great start, but how that person voted is what really makes democracy work. On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-11 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, For the majority of US states and territories (eg Kentucky

Re: [Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-11 Thread Marco Neumann
we had a go at this during the wikidatacon 2017 in Berlin. my take away from this session is that there is indeed an emerging pattern for representing data related to political events, organizations, individual and themes on wikidata but that at the of the day you will have to make your decision

[Wikidata] Election data

2018-03-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Different countries have different processes for elections: registration of political parties and candidates, the form of the ballot, the system for counting the votes and dividing the seats in the legislature, etc. I was surprised not to find almost any data about electoral history for