User:Whilomish/sandbox/Meetup:Full Fact

Full Fact, the UK’s independent, non-partisan, factchecking charity, hosted their first edit-a-thon on Saturday 14 May at Nwspk House. This is a project page to bring together information on that event, lists of resources, and any future events.

UK EU edit-a-thon
On Saturday 14 May Full Fact ran its first Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Nwspk House in East London. We were focusing on improving pages related to the European Union before the UK referendum.

On the day we:
 * Brought together 25 people to edit Wikipedia.
 * Trained 12 new or inexperienced editors.
 * Created two new pages: one on the EU deal and one on European judicial network on criminal matters.
 * Made improvements to 19 other pages: some small through improving references, some adding substantial new sections.

We also enjoyed talks on finding reliable sources and how not to make a graph from Full Fact’s senior researchers Joseph and CJ.

This would not have been possible without the help of Richard, Andrew and Roberta from Wikimedia who provided the training (and particular thanks to Andrew and Roberta for volunteering their Saturday), and Ed for hosting us at Nwspk House.

The response from volunteers was brilliant, with several asking when we plan to do it again (or even if it will be a weekly event!). There was particular enthusiasm from members of the Wikipedia community and some volunteers for work on creating better graphs for the project.

Resources

 * How to make bad charts in 7 simple rules
 * Clem's training resources

EU and referendum
This list was created by volunteers at the edit-a-thon, links are not necessarily endorsed by Full Fact.
 * Full Fact’s Europe page
 * ac.europa.eu
 * Office of National Statistics
 * EUR-Lex
 * Review of the balance of competences
 * The UK in a changing Europe
 * House of Commons Library Reading list on UK-EU relations 2013-16: reform, renegotiation, withdrawal
 * UK Government's Balance of Competencies Review
 * WikiProject Elections and Referendums
 * WikiProject European Union
 * From PwC, the UK’s largest professional services firm: Leaving the EU: implications for the UK economy
 * From the London School of Economics:
 * Life after BREXIT: What are the UK’s options outside the European Union?
 * The consequences of Brexit for UK trade and living standards
 * The impact of Brexit on foreign investment in the UK
 * The UK Treasury analysis of 'The long-term economic impact of EU membership and the alternatives': CEP Commentary
 * Brexit and the Impact of Immigration on the UK
 * From the OECD:
 * From HM Treasury:
 * National Institute of Economic and Social Research: Commentary - The economic consequences of leaving the EU
 * National Farmers Union:
 * Human rights:
 * Reports from LSE about migration:
 * Public services (Chartered Institute of Public Finances and Accountancy):                Comment from an economist colleague: (Be careful in reading this, because they use the wrong numbers on the economy … they misrepresent LSE in saying that "The Treasury released a dossier in 2016 that estimated the UK’s GDP growth would reduce in the event of a Brexit. They predicted a loss of 6.2% by 2030 or £4,300 for each household. Research from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 2016 estimated this figure to be lower, between 1.3% to 2.6%."  Those numbers refer to static estimates which do not consider the dynamic effects of trade on productivity.  Factoring those in, LSE found that "our dynamic estimates of the cost of Brexit indicate a GDP loss of 6.3% to 9.5% in the case of moving from the EU to EFTA ... Treasury estimates are at the lower end of this range." –
 * Regional development: EU membership benefits and challenges for Wales
 * Science and innovation: Royal Society report on UK membership of EU