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* The Scotsman, 24 September: [http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Young-people-need-to-be.5674598.jp "Young people need to be encouraged to use Holyrood's petitions process, MSPs told"] | * Times, 30 September: [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article6855709.ece "The gospel truth that you can write yourself"] - "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by readers, has one very conservative admirer. [...] Conservapedia" | ||
* Telegraph, 28 September: [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/6238928/Roman-Polanskis-Wikipedia-page-frozen-after-edit-war-over-child-sex-charges.html "Roman Polanski's Wikipedia page frozen after 'edit war' over child sex charges"] — "Roman Polanski's Wikipedia page has been frozen, after the film maker's arrest for having sex with an underage girl." | |||
* ZDNet UK, 28 September: [http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014011o-2000332346b,00.htm "Debt to Wikipedia Society" by Jake Rayson] — "I use Wikipedia incessantly, for workshops, blog entries and generally finding out about things." | |||
* The Scotsman, 24 September: [http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Young-people-need-to-be.5674598.jp "Young people need to be encouraged to use Holyrood's petitions process, MSPs told"] — "Mr Crawford welcomed recommendations in a report published by Holyrood's public petitions committee in June. The report said blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube could make parliament more accessible to the public." | |||
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Wikimedia UK Newsletter
October 2009 Issue
Summary: (to be written)
In this month's newsletter:
Press Coverage
- Times, 30 September: "The gospel truth that you can write yourself" - "If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by readers, has one very conservative admirer. [...] Conservapedia"
- Telegraph, 28 September: "Roman Polanski's Wikipedia page frozen after 'edit war' over child sex charges" — "Roman Polanski's Wikipedia page has been frozen, after the film maker's arrest for having sex with an underage girl."
- ZDNet UK, 28 September: "Debt to Wikipedia Society" by Jake Rayson — "I use Wikipedia incessantly, for workshops, blog entries and generally finding out about things."
- The Scotsman, 24 September: "Young people need to be encouraged to use Holyrood's petitions process, MSPs told" — "Mr Crawford welcomed recommendations in a report published by Holyrood's public petitions committee in June. The report said blogs, Wikipedia and YouTube could make parliament more accessible to the public."