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At a time of increasing digitization of political communication, the campaigns for the french legislative elections allow us to observe the way in which Wikipedia can constitute a new communicational tool for political staff. This contribution questions the integration of Wikipedia in the repertoires of electoral and partisan digital action, and more precisely the political edits on the biographical records of candidates and representatives in the collaborative encyclopedia. Our study confirms the existence of strategies of electoral, partisan and personal promotion in Wikipedia, but also testifies the singularity and fragility of these uses, condemned to clandestinity in this incomparable digital space, very different from other platforms dedicated to online political communication.