Newsletter/October2009

Wikimedia UK Newsletter

October 2009 Issue

Summary: (to be written)

In this month's newsletter:

Press Coverage

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."