Newsletter/June2009
Summary:
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] This was also covered by The Independent and Daily Mail, who interviewed our Volunteers Director, Paul Williams.
Our application to HMRC has been covered by Charity Finance and ThirdSector, who both quoted our Secretary, Andrew Turvey.
Article in the London Review of Books about Wikipedia
Other Chapters' Activities
The Netherlands chapter, Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland, is currently running Wiki Loves Art.
A Wikimedia Conference in Japan is currently being planned.
Meet-ups
- London 22 - Sunday 14th June @ 13:00 - Penderel's Oak Pub, Holborn WC1