Newsletter/October2009

Wikimedia UK Newsletter

October 2009 Issue

Summary: (to be written)

In this month's newsletter:

Press Coverage

Telegraph, 8 October: "Wikipedia-flavoured beef on Chinese restaurant menu" - "Fans of Chinese food are accustomed to seeing unlikely combinations of flavours on menus. But beef that tastes of Wikipedia?"
Scotsman, 7 October: "NHS staff cast the net wide when they go surfing online" - "The Evening News has obtained the website traffic of NHS Lothian's computers, which also show the ESPC site and Wikipedia to be popular resources among doctors, nurses and other health staff."
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."