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Our chair, Mike Peel, [http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42578/140/ was interviewed] for an Australian newspaper after a mother found explicit vandalism on Wikipedia. | Our chair, Mike Peel, [http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42578/140/ was interviewed] for an Australian newspaper after a mother found explicit vandalism on Wikipedia. | ||
Several blogs carried stories about the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee member who resigned after being exposed as a sockpuppet who had previously been de-sysopped and had edited articles where he had a conflict of interest. [http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/david-boothroyd-spawned-by-damian-mcbride-no-doubt/][http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2009/05/look-whos-been-naughty-boy.html][http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2009/05/boothroyds_resi.asp] | |||
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Wikimedia UK Newsletter
June09 Issue
Summary: [tbc]
In this month's newsletter:
Press Coverage
Several British newspapers covered a Wikipedia Arbitration Committee ruling banning members of Scientology from editing articles on the subject. [1][2][3]
Our chair, Mike Peel, was interviewed for an Australian newspaper after a mother found explicit vandalism on Wikipedia.
Several blogs carried stories about the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee member who resigned after being exposed as a sockpuppet who had previously been de-sysopped and had edited articles where he had a conflict of interest. [4][5][6]