Comments on: Labour Party MPs online

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:06:15 +0000

Here you go,thanks to Matthew Somerville: http://www.dracos.co.uk/work/theyworkforyou/api/mp-websites/

By: Political Penguin » Labour Party listings and some rather rambling musings

Political Penguin » Labour Party listings and some rather rambling musings — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:18:49 +0000

[...] other day I picked up on a post from Tom Watson MP relating to his list of Labour Party MP’s who have some form of web presence, be it site or [...]

By: duncan

duncan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:05:18 +0000

You might want to delete John MacDougall from your list.

By: Justin Kerr-Stevens

Justin Kerr-Stevens — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:30:19 +0000

If they had RSS on their sites you could do something slightly more visual using pageflakes or friendfeed. First five or so don’t. Other thing you could try would be to see if Dods will allow their listing to be available via rss… might be worth a shot.

Having said the above I think Andy probably has the solution for you – I’d be surprised if you couldn’t get the team at they work for you to pull something together.

By: Jon Worth

Jon Worth — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:31:47 +0000

Mediawiki, the software that powers Wikipedia, is really easy to install and would be the easiest way to do this.

The French Parti Socialiste already has something similar.

Happy to help out with the installation…

By: Labour Matters

Labour Matters — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:12:19 +0000

Define easier. If you’re looking for a package so that others can add/edit/delete then media wiki would do, I guess.

If you want the ability to control the content but allow others to suggest new links, then a directory package like http://www.freephpdirectoryscript.com/ would do it. I think that it’ll also allow you to ping URLs to check they’re still valid).

By: Andy Mabbett

Andy Mabbett — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:48:06 +0000

They work for you has each MPs site on their resepective biography:

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/tom_watson/west_bromwich_east

I’m sure they could easily code a page showing all MPs, by party, with links.