Newsletter/September2009
Summary: (to be written)
In this month's newsletter:
Initiatives
Schools Project:
Britain Loves Wikipedia:
Workplace Learning Lunches
Charity status update
Other Chapters' Activities
Press Coverage
- Flagged Protection
The big story on Wikipedia this month was flagged protection. Following from a New York Times article, the UK press caught on to the story. Our Chair, Mike Peel, talked to BBC News, The Times, The UK Press Association and The Independent.
Andrew Turvey was interviewed on Dublin's Radio 4 (26 August). Also, David Gerard was interviewed by BBC Radio 2 (Chris Evans Drivetime; 26 August)) and Radio 5 (25 August), and also gave interviews on BBC Newsnight (25 August) and Sky News (26 August).
In addition, the Times also ran an article entitled "The 10 biggest Wikipedia hoaxes". The story was also covered by the Daily Mail, the Guardian Blog and The Telegraph (which also had a blog post on the story). The Guardian also ran an editorial covering it.
Resulting from the press coverage, the WMF posted a blog entry, which was covered by TechRadar and PC Pro.
- Other press coverage this month included
- 3 million articles on the English Wikipedia: Coverage continued of the 3 million article milestone on the English Wikipedia, with articles from The Telegraph. Wired repeated The Telegraph's coverage of the most popular 50 articles on the English Wikipedia so far.
- iPhone app: The Telegraph covered the launch of the official iPhone application for Wikipedia.
- Best Wikipedia articles: The Times Online's Comment Central gave a list of "The 10 best wikipedia entries" - chosen more for their oddity than their encyclopaedic quality.
- Most popular articles: The Telegraph reported lists of the most popular 20 articles in 4 categories: "People", "Films and TV", "Places" and "Technology"