Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread geni
Cool. Just took me a while to work out a way around the train issues On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 20:43, John Lubbock wrote: > Come anyway, we can fit you in. I just wanted to keep numbers low cos > there might not be a lot of space if there's a lot of other people, but any > experienced Wikimedians

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread John Lubbock
Come anyway, we can fit you in. I just wanted to keep numbers low cos there might not be a lot of space if there's a lot of other people, but any experienced Wikimedians should feel free to just turn up. John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0767 Wikimedia UK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread geni
Event aparently sold out. On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 11:47, John Lubbock wrote: > We've got The Guardian now also wanting to come and cover our election > night event, so come and join us! > > > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-election-night-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-80663154667 > > John

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Hand
Oops! Please ignore the page I just created. Will merge the content from there into John's already existing page. Edward On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 13:21, John Lubbock wrote: > I've done a project page for the event already Ed, so if you want to put > resources in there you can! > >

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread John Lubbock
I've done a project page for the event already Ed, so if you want to put resources in there you can! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2019_election_night_editathon John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0767 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread Ed Hand
John Great news about The Guardian. Have just started a Wikipedia page, the shortcut is WP:GE2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetups/UK/General_election,_December_2019 Will start fleshing it out later, probably starting with safe seat candidates:

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 11:46, John Lubbock wrote: > We've got The Guardian now also wanting to come and cover our > election night event That's good. Why not talk to them about why they should - in the sprit of the event - open licence some of their pics of it? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-11 Thread John Lubbock
We've got The Guardian now also wanting to come and cover our election night event, so come and join us! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-election-night-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-80663154667 John Lubbock Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 203 372 0767 Wikimedia UK is a

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-12-04 Thread John Lubbock
I'm doing another push on our election night editathon next week. We've had a couple of journalists ask to come along to it, so I'd really like to get a few more experienced Wikipedia editors to come to it to help out with the work we need to do to update MPs pages. If you or anyone else you know

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-11-12 Thread John Lubbock
Hi all, can I please ask anybody who wants to come to our election night Wikipedia editathon to please sign up on the Eventbrite here so we know how many people are coming. Thanks! John Lubbock

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-11-07 Thread John Lubbock
Just following up on this to say that Newspeak House is happy to host up to 15 of us for an election night editathon. Please sign up here if you'd like to come: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-election-night-wikipedia-editathon-tickets-80663154667 See you there! John Lubbock Communications

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election night editathon

2019-11-04 Thread Ed Hand
Thanks John The last one at Newspeak House was a success, and I would be up for doing this again. There were several psephologists there last time, and once the exit polling data was out, working with them, we were able to predict who the new incoming MPs would be. This is of course easiest

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Election Night Editathon(s?)

2015-04-13 Thread Ed Hand
Fabian Thanks again for all your work on this. I've suggested how we might deal with new MPs and created an example draft page - see the talkpage for more! Edward On 13 April 2015 at 14:57, Fabian Tompsett fabian.tomps...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi all, If you are one of those people who