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*Mashable {http://mashable.com/2015/02/06/right-to-be-forgotten-europe-only/ - Google advisory panel on Right to be Forgotten wants RTBF to be limited in scope] - Jimmy Wales is part of the panel. This story has attracted lots of coverage in smaller outlets but larger outlets seem to be a bit bored of the story. | *Mashable {http://mashable.com/2015/02/06/right-to-be-forgotten-europe-only/ - Google advisory panel on Right to be Forgotten wants RTBF to be limited in scope] - Jimmy Wales is part of the panel. This story has attracted lots of coverage in smaller outlets but larger outlets seem to be a bit bored of the story. | ||
*Metro [http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/09/the-aliens-who-stumble-across-these-nine-wikipedia-pages-in-space-maybe-too-shocked-to-make-contact-5054989/ The aliens who stumble upon these Wikipedia articles may be too shocked to make contact] - follow up to the story a couple of rows above, providing an excuse to get some easy content highlighting odd Wikipedia articles. | *Metro [http://metro.co.uk/2015/02/09/the-aliens-who-stumble-across-these-nine-wikipedia-pages-in-space-maybe-too-shocked-to-make-contact-5054989/ The aliens who stumble upon these Wikipedia articles may be too shocked to make contact] - follow up to the story a couple of rows above, providing an excuse to get some easy content highlighting odd Wikipedia articles. | ||
*Irish Times - [http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/wikipedia-editing-class-to-build-knowledge-of-irish-role-in-wwi-1.2103162 Wikipedia editing class to build knowledge of Irish role in WWI] | |||
*Daily Mail - [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2952260/The-scale-EU-right-forgotten-rules-revealed-Google-says-forced-delete-260-000-links-legislation-criticised-protecting-terrorists-criminals.html The scale of Right to be Forgotten, Google claims it has had to delete 260k search results] | |||
*Evolution News - [http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/02/the_lincoln-dar093561.html The Lincoln-Darwin myth revisited] - piece about Abraham Lincoln's views on evolution and an edit war on Wikipedia. | |||
*Times Higher Education - [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/wikipedia-should-be-better-integrated-into-teaching/2018486.article Wikipedia should be better integrated into teaching] - really useful piece that we can lean on about the use of Wikipedia, and its editing, by an academic. | |||