User:Stevie Benton (WMUK)/Sandbox: Difference between revisions

List of press coverage from August to October 2014

Wikimania

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Ground Report: The Wikipedia Convention and Amanda Knox
Times Higher Education Wikimania: student medics get credit for webside manner
The Daily ProthomAlo Progress Bengali Wikipedia (Bengali)
Guardian Histropedia – tool to visualise history unveiled at Wikimania
Guardian Wikipedia isn't perfect, but as a model it's as good as it gets
Le Monde Wikipédia en quête de nouveaux contributeurs
Heise Online: Wikimania: Die Wikipedia als soziale Maschine
RIA Novosti Wikimania, motor de ideas y proyectos del libre acceso al conocimiento
YouGov British people trust Wikipedia more than the news
Tech Times Monkey selfie makes Wikimedia go bananas
Guardian Wikipedia can be read on mobile for free in developing world
BBC The World of Wiki
Breitbart Wikimedia launches viral attack on Europe's 'right to be forgotten'
The New Yorker Wikipedia Defends the Monkey Selfie
Public Library of Science Wikimania: We need to choose the main stream over our small pool
ElEconomista.es Wikipedia, contra el derecho al olvido: "Desaparecen enlaces sin explicación"
El Huffington Post 'Selfie' del macaco: ¿de quién son los derechos de la foto?
Guardian Go ahead: waste a day on Wikipedia. It's good for the future of humanity
Guardian Jimmy Wales is wrong: we do have a personal right to be forgotten
BBC Wikipedia 'completely failed' to fix gender imbalance
Red Orbit Wikipedia Founder Vows To Fight The Censorship Of “Right To Be Forgotten” Regulations
L'Huffington Post Wikipedia contro il diritto all'oblio: "Vallanzasca è fuori. Internet sta diventando un luogo crivellato di buchi di memoria"
Hamburger Abendblatt David Slater vs. Wikipedia: Wer macht sich hier zum Affen?
Guardian The Guardian view on Wikipedia
RT 'History is a human right': UK govt. Wikipedia edits obscure high profile killings
Forbes From Monkey Selfies To The Right To Be Forgotten, Wikimedia Talks Transparency
Public Library of Science A license to please
Telegraph Information Commissioner defends 'right to be forgotten'
PCMag Who Really Owns a Monkey's Selfie?
Huffington Post Wikipedia Is In A Pretty Weird Battle Over A Monkey Selfie
BuzzFeed No, Wikipedia Doesn’t Think A Monkey Owns The Copyright On This Selfie
Le Figaro Le selfie d'un singe au cœur d'une bataille de droit d'auteur
Wired If a Monkey Can Own a Selfie, What Other Rights Should It Have?
Channel 4 Twitter bot will monitor government Wikipedia changes
SC Magazine Wikipedia contests EU ruling on 'right to be forgotten'
BBC Photographer 'lost £10,000' in Wikipedia monkey 'selfie' row
The New Zealand Herald Right to be forgotten is web 'censorship' - Wikipedia
Digital Spy Wikipedia holds vote to determine who owns monkey selfie
Mirror Wikipedia to vote on monkey selfie to decide whether it should take the picture down
Le Monde Des articles de Wikipedia censurés par Google au nom du droit à l'oubli?
Guardian Wikipedia's monkey selfie ruling is a travesty for the world's monkey artists
Guardian Whose truth is Wikipedia guarding?
Guardian Monkey owns selfie, claims Wikimedia
My Science Work Wikipedia, Sharing Democratically
Times Higher Education 'Right to be forgotten' comes under attack
Guardian Wikipedia UK chief: 'UK produces 20% of all articles'
Repubblica Diritto oblio, la protesta di Wikipedia: "È profondamente immorale"
The Times of India Monkey owns copyright for selfie, Wikipedia tells photographer
BBC British photographer in Wikipedia monkey selfie row
Gulf News Photographer goes bananas over monkey selfie
BBC Wikipedia: The book...
BT Wikipedia attacks web censorship
Sky News Wiki Backs Monkey In Selfie Copyright Row
Irish Examiner Wikipedia page for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch still in Google search
Huffington Post Wikipedia Edits From Government Computers Sought To Downplay Killings Like Jean Charles de Menezes
GMA News The monkey did it! Wikipedia upholds monkey's copyright to own selfie
First Post Selfie by a monkey: Why Wikipedia won't delete this one picture
iReporters TV How An Ape Selfie Caused Trouble Between Photographer And Wikipedia
El País Wikipedia considera el derecho al olvido una forma de censura
E&T Wikipedia fights back against ‘right to be forgotten’
Guardian Wikipedia edits made by government sought to minimise high-profile killings
Wired Wikipedia publishes takedown and de-linking requests
The Drum Wikipedia accuses photographer of Macaque-handed copyright claim over monkey selfie
The Irish Times Google removes Wikipedia link to former criminal ‘the Monk’
Herald Scotland Wikipedia condemns ruling on the right to be forgotten
Breaking News.ie Wikipedia page for Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch still in Google search
Fudzilla Wikipedia told to “forget” historical information
The Australian Wikipedia’s best ever monkey selfie sparks primate copyright row
Independent.ie Hutch’s bid to wipe out past from cyberspace
Delhi Daily News Copyright row erupts over monkey 'selfie'
Terra.com.br 'Selfie' de macaco gera briga entre fotógrafo e Wikipédia
The Washington Post If a monkey takes a selfie in the forest, who owns the copyright? No one, says Wikimedia.
Irish Mirror Convicted criminal Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s Wikipedia page has request to be removed from online search results
Al Jazeera America Wikipedia defies Europe's 'right to be forgotten' rule
Telegraph Wikipedia founder: EU's Right to be Forgotten is 'deeply immoral'
Al Jazeera Balkans Wikipedia otkrila 'zaboravljene' linkove
La Tercera "Selfie" de un mono provoca polémica en Wikipedia por derechos de autor
El Periódico Wikipedia se niega a borrar el 'selfie' de un mono
Salon Wikipedia at war! “Monkey selfie” sets off bizarre copyright dispute
ITV Monkey 'selfie' picture sparks Wikipedia copyright row
International Business Times Google Removes More Than 50 Links to Wikipedia Content
Evening Standard Help! I’m a Wiki-geek: Nimrod Kamer on his addiction to Wikipedia
BoingBoing Human photographer goes ape over monkey photo decision
The Wire The Best of Wikipedia's Rejected Takedown Requests
Gizmodo Wikipedia Reveals Which Pages the "Right to be Forgotten" Law Killed
International Business Times 'Communist' Wikipedia Faces Lawsuit Over Monkey Selfie Copyright Dispute
Digital Spy Wikipedia refuses to remove 'monkey-owned' photograph
Venture Beat Wikimedia transparency report reveals hundreds of takedown requests, 57 links removed by Google
Business ETC Photographer loses battle with Wikipedia over this amazing monkey selfie
PC Pro Wikipedia highlights five articles "forgotten" by Google
Time Wikimedia Foundation Releases Its First-Ever Transparency Report
The Verge Wikimedia denies photographer's claim to a monkey's selfie
Daily Mail Wikipedia attack on 'censorship'
Metro Wikipedia, photographer (and presumably monkey) in copyright row over black macaque selfie picture
Telegraph Wikipedia founder: History is a human right
NY Mag This Monkey Sort of Owns the Rights to Its Selfie, Says Wikimedia
Independent Google removes links to notorious criminals' Wikipedia pages
Phys Wikipedia says EU court ruling is Web 'censorship'
Reuters Wikipedia fights back against Europe's "right to be forgotten"
Daily Mail Wikipedia rejects photographer's claim of copyright over famous monkey selfie - on the grounds that the ape took it!
ITProPortal Monkey selfies and Aboriginals: Wikipedia founder brands Google censorship "immoral"
Telegraph Wikipedia refuses to delete photo as 'monkey owns it'
Telegraph Government computers used to alter Wikipedia entries on high profile killings
Huffington Post Monkey Selfie Picture Is Fair Game Says Wikipedia
Channel 4 Government Wiki edits downplay high profile killings
La Vanguardia Esta semana: Wikimania
BBC Wikipedia 'not perfect but improving' says founder
Guardian Wikipedia swears to fight 'censorship' of 'right to be forgotten' ruling
Guardian Wikipedia boss Lila Tretikov: ‘Glasnost taught me much about freedom of information’
9To5Google Wikipedia stands up against ‘right to be forgotten,’ uploads Google removal notices
Huffington Post Wikipedia Won't Delete Photo As Monkey 'Owns' It
Huffington Post Wikipedia Publishes Full List Of 'Right To Forget' Requests
Press Association Wikipedia attack on 'censorship'
Washington Post Google has scrubbed 50 links to Wikipedia, thanks to the ‘right to be forgotten’ law
Ars Technica “Memory holes” blanket Wikipedia as links disappear in search results
Daily Dot Wikimedia Foundation officially condemns 'right to be forgotten'
Independent Wikipedia warns that EU legislation will create 'Orwellian memory holes' in the internet
Press Association Wikipedia Attack on 'Censorship'
Digital Spy Wikipedia refuses to remove 'monkey-owned' photograph
Fast Company Wikipedia Publishes First-Ever Transparency Report—And There's A Funny Story About A Monkey
Mirror Wikipedia refuses photographer's request to remove animal selfie because MONKEY took the picture
PC Pro Wikipedia highlights five articles "forgotten" by Google
Express Wikipedia guru blasts European court after slamming ‘forget me’ laws
Tech Crunch Attacks Europe’s Right To Be Forgotten Ruling As Threat To Its Mission
TheNextWeb releases first transparency report: Over 300 content edit and takedown requests rejected
TheNextWeb Wikimedia slams ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling, creates page for Wikipedia link removal notices
IB Times Google Removes More Than 50 Links to Wikipedia Content
Tech City News Wikipedia refuses over 300 censorship requests, insists ‘history is a human right’
BBC Wikipedia reveals Google 'forgotten' search links
NYTimes Bits blog Wikipedia Details Government Data Requests
Telegraph Wikipedia link removed from Google under 'Right to be Forgotten'
Time Wikimedia Foundation Releases Its First-Ever Transparency Report
Time Out London Wikimania! Head to Wikipedia’s first ever London festival
BBC Wiki wars: Do Wikipedia's internal tiffs deter newcomers?
The Next Web Wikimedia’s annual Wikimania conference is coming to London in 2014
Guardian Armenians asked to write Wikipedia entries to promote culture (This project has a slot on the wikimania meetups list.)

Wikipedia and Wikimedia related (key stories only)

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Wikipedia emerges as trusted internet source for Ebola information http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/wikipedia-is-emerging-as-trusted-internet-source-for-information-on-ebola-.html]
WilliamFry.ie Monkey business over copyright dispute
ibtimes.co.uk Nude Celebrity Hacking Scandal: Jennifer Lawrence's Nude Pics Surface on Wikipedia Page
Cosmopolitan.co.uk Jennifer Lawrence's Wikipedia page trolled with nude photos

(Note - this story appeared many, many times and since it is not a Wikimedia UK story there is little value repeating all instances here)

Liverpool Echo 'I'm not Bungle': Mersey politician's denial after Wikipedia prank
Daily Mail I'm NOT Bungle, insists UKIP deputy leader after internet pranksters edit his Wikipedia page to claim he starred in 70s children's TV show Rainbow
The Poke [UKIP Chief Forced To Deny He Played Bungle in Rainbow http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/10/19/ukip-chief-forced-to-deny-he-played-bungle-in-rainbow/]

(This story appeared in several other outlets)

UK Progressive You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story
LSE blog Wikipedia’s open content production platform creates significant spillover benefits that encourage users to contribute further.
Telegraph Polish town to build statue honouring Wikipedia
Independent Wikipedia monument to be built in Poland

(Note: this story received significant coverage, all in a similar vein. As it's not a WMUK story and we aren't quoted, there's little sense recording it here)

Huffington Post UK Nobel Prize Winner Jean Tirole's Wikipedia Page Needs Some Tidying Up
Liverpool Echo Government issues new Wikipedia rules for Whitehall staff after civil servant posted Hillsborough slurs
Cambridge News New 'Wikipedia' for genome data access
Daily Mail Long headline but basically the story is about a man who walked on a high wire between two sky scrapers. During the walk someone edited his Wikipedia biography to say he had died.
Metro Footballer Kolo Toure's Wikipedia article playfully amended after he plays well against Real Madrid. Yes, this is news. No, really.
i100 The weirdest Wikipedia pages ever deleted
This is local London Details from Wikipedia page of former Enfield North MP Joan Ryan mysteriously removed
Daily Mail General story about people from US Congress editing Wikipedia. Sigh.
BBC Wikipedia 'foresees virus outbreaks'
Daily Mail Smithsonian works out 100 most influential Americans by Wikipedia page views
Telegraph Russian library to launch rival to "untrustworthy" Wikipedia
British Council 80 moments that shaped the world - Creation of Wikipedia is ranked 47
BBC News Russia plans alternative Wikipedia
Channel 4 News Government user edits Wikipedia to smear FIFA
Truth-out.org When Facebook Is the Internet: Zero-Rating and the Global Net Neutrality Debate - piece critical of Wikipedia Zero and sets this in context against Facebook Zero etc
Washington Post Wikipedia's complicated relationship with net neutrality
Telegraph Wikipedia asks French help to explain cheese with WikiCheese
Techcrunch Firefox redesigns its search interface - now includes one click results for Wikipedia
New Statesman Who's the Whitehall civil servant who spends hours editing footballers' Wikipedia articles?
Business Insider Australia Wikipedia Wants Its Users To Buy It $6000 Worth Of French Cheese Despite Sitting On $27 Million In Cash
The Register Wikipedia won't stop BEGGING for cash - despite sitting on $60m
Culture24 Cornelia Parker to create huge Wikipedia inspired replication of Magna Carta at the British Library
Live Science Wikipedia's gender problem gets a closer look
Huffington Post Rosie Stephenson, the woman who wrote over three thousand articles on Wikipedia
Slate Encyclopedia frown - Wikipedia is amazing but it’s become a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess.
Gizmodo This beautiful galaxy is actually a stunning visualization of Wikipedia
Telegraph (City Diary column) snippet criticises the WMF fundraising campaign as data held outside US and shared with partners
Venture Beat Google plans to integrate its fact database - Freebase - into Wikidata
Times Higher Education Book review of Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, by Nathaniel Tkacz
Telegraph Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales says MPs should vote electronically - comments are a bit of a mess...
BBC Radio 4 - excerpt from the Today programme Jimmy Wales speaks with Speaker of the House John Bercow about digital democracy - sadly, no mention of our own project on this.
Digital Spy UK Jimmy Wales responds to Gamer Gate criticism
Venture Beat The top 10 most edited Wikipedia articles of 2014: Ebola, Malaysia Airlines, and … some surprises
Wikipedia year in review video on YouTube
qz.com The top-viewed Wikipedia page for every day of 2014
Gizmodo 9 Of The Weirdest Wikipedia Pages We've Ever Seen
Huffington Post 49 most entertaining Wikipedia entries ever
Huffington Post 13 ways to get the most from Wikipedia
Anita Borg Institute How to Edit Wikipedia: Lessons from a Female Contributor
Harvard Business School Which is more biased: Wikipedia or Britannica?
Mirror Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a Government computer
Guardian Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles - a view of the current ArbCom case related to the Gamer Gate controversy. This story was picked up elsewhere in many places.
St Petersburg Times Russia's education watchdog says Wikipedia should be banned
BFI - The day we teamed up with Wikipedia coverage of a WMUK / BFI editathon
Inquisitr - GamerGate Wikipedia Ruling Bans Harassed Feminist Editors, Outrage Ensues
The Verge - Wikipedia denies 'purging' feminist editors over Gamergate debate - there's lots more coverage of the GamerGate case on English Wikipedia, not much of it reflects on WP well.
Times Higher Education Book review Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and *Liberal Education in the Digital Age, by Thomas Leitch
Refinery29 - A selection of Wikipedia articles featuring sad stories
Washington Post (blog) - Gamergate, Wikipedia and the limits of human knowledge - a thoughtful look at Gamergate and Wikipedia. More reflective than many, hence its inclusion here.
Fast Coexist - Black History Matters, So Why Is Wikipedia Missing So Much Of It? - a look at possible reasons why Wikipedia's coverage of black history is lacking. Inspired by an upcoming editathon in the US.
PLOS blogs - Researchers Changing the Way We Respond to Epidemics with Wikipedia and Twitter - a look at how insights from things like Wikipedia searches and social media topics can help researchers predict things like disease outbreaks.
Daily Mail - Wikipedia GPs! Half of all doctors go online to help diagnose patients while a quarter want health apps to help treat the sick Typical Daily Mail piece in which they manage to have a pop at Labour, Wikipedia, the NHS and everyone else.
Fast Company - More like Dude-Ipedia: study shows Wikipedia's sexist bias Short but good piece taking a look at some computational linguistic analysis highlighting the nature and extent of Wikipedia's systemic bias.
Geek Wire Meet the man ridding Wikipedia of ‘comprised of,’ one edit at a time
Guardian Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong - further coverage of the man who changes every instance of "comprises of" on Wikipedia.
Slate Wikipedia chews up and spits out bad facts and its own policies are letting it happen Good piece looking at GamerGate coverage, how original news coverage was wrong. Explains that WP policies mean that these incorrect pieces of coverage can now be used as references on Wikipedia for wrong information.
Mirror Wikipedia to be beamed into space so aliens can learn about the human race
Metro Scientists hope to contact aliens by beaming Wikipedia into space
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 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 - Wikipedia editing class to build knowledge of Irish role in WWI
Daily Mail - The scale of Right to be Forgotten, Google claims it has had to delete 260k search results
Evolution News - The Lincoln-Darwin myth revisited - piece about Abraham Lincoln's views on evolution and an edit war on Wikipedia.
Times Higher Education - 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.
STV Dundee Join the campaign to improve coverage of women and art on Wikipedia Short piece about an art+feminism editathon taking place in March
Quartz Wiki Wars - inside the increasingly nasty battle for Wikipedia's soul - a whistle stop tour of the furore over GameGate and the less interesting or important vandalism of Beck's article over the Grammys
PopMatters Wikipedia controversy and the myth of neutrality Thoughtful piece looking at GamerGate (does a good job) and the broader issue of communications in tech lacking neutrality (particularly in terms of gender).
Croydon Advertiser Aide admits removing 'unfair' entry on MP's Wikipedia page An aide to an MP has removed a link to a satirical article in the MP's BLP.
Vox HG Wells predicted Wikipedia in 1937
Sydney Morning Herald Sex, religion and John Howard - Wikipedia's most controversial pages - retread of an old piece listing the most tendentious articles on Wikipedia.
Daily Mail Retread of the SMH article, but with a headline covering five lines
Financial Times Editors for hire on Wikipedia Decent enough piece looking at paid editing
Wired (US version) Meet the editors fighting racism and sexism on Wikipedia
Slate blog On Wikipedia, GamerGate refuses to die
Spectator {http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/03/mystery-surrounds-tory-mps-wikipedia-page/ Has a Tory MP been editing his own Wikipedia page?] Story about Calder Valley MP Craig Whittaker's staff editing his Wikipedia article from Parliament.
Independent NYPD Wikipedia edits - see the most alarming changes allegedly made to online articles (There was a lot of international coverage of this story)
Independent Grant Shapps adopts another pseudonym - the mystery of his middle name "V"
Telegraph The BBC could have checked Wikipedia for the truth about Cyclone Pam
Telegraph My Wikipedia page is completely wrong but I can't be caught correcting it
Comscore Top 20 most visited web properties in the UK for Feb 2015 - Wikipedia / WM sites rank 11th

Wikimedia Foundation sues the NSA

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This is a new section for coverage related to the news that the Wikimedia Foundation (along with other groups) is to sue the National Security Agency in the US. There's a lot of coverage, some UK based, so makes sense to keep more of a record here.

Wikimedia UK directly created or quoted

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Daily Record Highland League goalkeeper has a bigger Wikipedia page than Barcelona star Neymar
Telegraph Why can't nobodies have lengthy Wikipedia profiles?
Metro Scottish Highlands goalkeeper creates detailed Wikipedia page worthy of a Premier League star
Daily Mail [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2811950/Semi-professional-keeper-Scottish-Highland-League-bigger-Wikipedia-page-England-international-Joe-Hart.html Semi-professional keeper in the Scottish Highland League has bigger Wikipedia page than England international Joe Hart
Mirror Meet Fraser Hobday: The amateur goalkeeper with a bigger Wikipedia page than Neymar
Director magazine 8 ways to sharpen your presence on Wikipedia - the article actually gives more information about the pitfalls and makes it clear that companies shouldn't undertake CoI editing.
Watford Observer South Oxhey described as a slum on Wikipedia - this article recounts an act of vandalism on English Wikipedia to a relatively low traffic article. Was fixed after a few days. Features explanations from Stevie about how WP works.

Global Legal Post - - a piece about inconsistencies in freedom of panorama. This piece was drafted by Karl Sigfrid in Brussels and rewritten by Stevie

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 *Independent [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-adopts-another-pseudonym-the-mystery-of-his-middle-name-v-10113196.html Grant Shapps adopts another pseudonym - the mystery of his middle name "V"]
 *Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11485976/The-BBC-could-have-checked-Wikipedia-for-the-truth-about-Cyclone-Pam.html The BBC could have checked Wikipedia for the truth about Cyclone Pam]
+*Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/debates/11500485/My-Wikipedia-page-is-completely-wrong-but-I-cant-be-caught-correcting-it.html My Wikipedia page is completely wrong but I can't be caught correcting it]
+*Comscore [http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Market-Rankings/comScore-Ranks-Top-UK-Digital-Media-Properties-for-February-2015 Top 20 most visited web properties in the UK for Feb 2015 - Wikipedia / WM sites rank 11th]
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