Newsletter/February2009

Wikimedia UK Newsletter

February 2009 Issue

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Summary:

In this month's newsletter:

1. Chapter formation process
2. Website
3. Annual General Meeting
4. Wikipedia Loves Art
5. Oxford Wikimania bid
6. Meet-ups
7. News coverage
8. IP consultation

News coverage

The possible implementation of flagged revisions on the English language Wikipedia has been in the news in the UK, and we've been providing accurate information. Mike Peel was interviewed by BBC Radio Wales' "mousemat", who put together an informative feature. Meanwhile, David Gerard spoke to the Daily Mail about some vandalism to the article on Alan Titchmarsh [1].

Other stories this month have included a piece in the Sunday Times based on an interview with Jimmy Wales [2], in which Giles Hattersley claimed that his Wikipedia article had contained several errors - but the Daily Telegraph noted that Hattersley has no Wikipedia article [3]. Reuters reported on a Conservative Party official altering a Wikipedia article in an attempt to support a claim made by David Cameron [4]. The Independent published a critical article [5], but David Mitchell, writing in The Observer, thinks that Wikipedia is "brilliant" [6].