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(Note - this story appeared many, many times and since it is not a Wikimedia UK story there is little value repeating all instances here)
(This story appeared in several other outlets)
(Note: this story received significant coverage, all in a similar vein. As it's not a WMUK story and we aren't quoted, there's little sense recording it here)
- Huffington Post UK Nobel Prize Winner Jean Tirole's Wikipedia Page Needs Some Tidying Up
- Liverpool Echo Government issues new Wikipedia rules for Whitehall staff after civil servant posted Hillsborough slurs
- Cambridge News New 'Wikipedia' for genome data access
- Daily Mail Long headline but basically the story is about a man who walked on a high wire between two sky scrapers. During the walk someone edited his Wikipedia biography to say he had died.
- Metro Footballer Kolo Toure's Wikipedia article playfully amended after he plays well against Real Madrid. Yes, this is news. No, really.
- i100 The weirdest Wikipedia pages ever deleted
- This is local London Details from Wikipedia page of former Enfield North MP Joan Ryan mysteriously removed
- Daily Mail General story about people from US Congress editing Wikipedia. Sigh.
- BBC Wikipedia 'foresees virus outbreaks'
- Daily Mail Smithsonian works out 100 most influential Americans by Wikipedia page views
- Telegraph Russian library to launch rival to "untrustworthy" Wikipedia
- British Council 80 moments that shaped the world - Creation of Wikipedia is ranked 47
- BBC News Russia plans alternative Wikipedia
- Channel 4 News Government user edits Wikipedia to smear FIFA
- Truth-out.org When Facebook Is the Internet: Zero-Rating and the Global Net Neutrality Debate - piece critical of Wikipedia Zero and sets this in context against Facebook Zero etc
- Washington Post Wikipedia's complicated relationship with net neutrality
- Telegraph Wikipedia asks French help to explain cheese with WikiCheese
- Techcrunch Firefox redesigns its search interface - now includes one click results for Wikipedia
- New Statesman Who's the Whitehall civil servant who spends hours editing footballers' Wikipedia articles?
- Business Insider Australia Wikipedia Wants Its Users To Buy It $6000 Worth Of French Cheese Despite Sitting On $27 Million In Cash
- The Register Wikipedia won't stop BEGGING for cash - despite sitting on $60m
- Culture24 Cornelia Parker to create huge Wikipedia inspired replication of Magna Carta at the British Library
- Live Science Wikipedia's gender problem gets a closer look
- Huffington Post Rosie Stephenson, the woman who wrote over three thousand articles on Wikipedia
- Slate Encyclopedia frown - Wikipedia is amazing but it’s become a rancorous, sexist, elitist, stupidly bureaucratic mess.
- Gizmodo This beautiful galaxy is actually a stunning visualization of Wikipedia
- Telegraph (City Diary column) snippet criticises the WMF fundraising campaign as data held outside US and shared with partners
- Times Higher Education Book review of Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, by Nathaniel Tkacz
- Telegraph Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales says MPs should vote electronically - comments are a bit of a mess...
- BBC Radio 4 - excerpt from the Today programme Jimmy Wales speaks with Speaker of the House John Bercow about digital democracy - sadly, no mention of our own project on this.
- Digital Spy UK Jimmy Wales responds to Gamer Gate criticism
- Venture Beat The top 10 most edited Wikipedia articles of 2014: Ebola, Malaysia Airlines, and … some surprises
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