User:John Broughton/U.S. House 2006

List of seats of interest:

Washington Post

Wikiproject House Elections 2008

Draft: User talk:John Broughton/Wikiproject Notable races for the House 2006 How to set up: Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide

Cat for each article (nowikied sample): [[Category:United States House of Representatives elections by state|Illinois 8 2006]]

List of ALL 2006 House campaign articles with that category: here

Possible invitees

• [1] - edited Michigan 8th congressional district election, 2006 after I set it up.
• Kim Wolfe - W.Va 3rd - not a notable race - editors: [2] (who voted in AfD), [3], [4], [5], author: [6];
• [7]
• Those who edited at:
  • Wikipedia:Candidates and elections
  • United States House elections, 2006
  • United States House elections, 2006 complete list
• Diana Irey: her AfD: [8], [9], [10], [11], and her article: [12],

Resources

• Resources: [13]

• Robopolling - 2006 House seats: [14]

• Alternative newsweeklies. Local newspapers with searchable archives, such as St. Petersburg Times (Bilirakis).

• Help:Enhanced recent changes for tracking changes to pages within the project.

Pombo v. McNerney, 2006

Here's the story of a $25K grant for a demo project: [15]

So, the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism is building the demo project, but as of 10/4/2006, NOTHING appears to be up, with the election just a month away: [16]

Actually, here's the (internal) blog on progress - so things are happening, but slowly: [17]

(Checked on 10/26 - last posting was 10/15 - I'm guessing that they have essentially given up having a website up before the election. I suspect they've given up having anything done before the election. I've not seen anything actually stating that they would, be it always seemed a reasonable presumption.

What's particularly interesting is the volunteer/citizen aspect, plus the idea of building a "template" for use in 2008.