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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]