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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
- Venture Beat Google plans to integrate its fact database - Freebase - into Wikidata
- 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
- Wikipedia year in review video on YouTube
- qz.com The top-viewed Wikipedia page for every day of 2014
- Gizmodo 9 Of The Weirdest Wikipedia Pages We've Ever Seen
- Huffington Post 49 most entertaining Wikipedia entries ever
- Huffington Post 13 ways to get the most from Wikipedia
- Anita Borg Institute How to Edit Wikipedia: Lessons from a Female Contributor
- Harvard Business School Which is more biased: Wikipedia or Britannica?
- Mirror Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a Government computer
- Guardian Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles - a view of the current ArbCom case related to the Gamer Gate controversy. This story was picked up elsewhere in many places.
- St Petersburg Times Russia's education watchdog says Wikipedia should be banned
- BFI - The day we teamed up with Wikipedia coverage of a WMUK / BFI editathon
- Inquisitr - GamerGate Wikipedia Ruling Bans Harassed Feminist Editors, Outrage Ensues
- The Verge - Wikipedia denies 'purging' feminist editors over Gamergate debate - there's lots more coverage of the GamerGate case on English Wikipedia, not much of it reflects on WP well.
- Times Higher Education Book review Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority and *Liberal Education in the Digital Age, by Thomas Leitch
- Refinery29 - A selection of Wikipedia articles featuring sad stories
- Washington Post (blog) - Gamergate, Wikipedia and the limits of human knowledge - a thoughtful look at Gamergate and Wikipedia. More reflective than many, hence its inclusion here.
- Fast Coexist - Black History Matters, So Why Is Wikipedia Missing So Much Of It? - a look at possible reasons why Wikipedia's coverage of black history is lacking. Inspired by an upcoming editathon in the US.
- PLOS blogs - Researchers Changing the Way We Respond to Epidemics with Wikipedia and Twitter - a look at how insights from things like Wikipedia searches and social media topics can help researchers predict things like disease outbreaks.
- Daily Mail - Wikipedia GPs! Half of all doctors go online to help diagnose patients while a quarter want health apps to help treat the sick Typical Daily Mail piece in which they manage to have a pop at Labour, Wikipedia, the NHS and everyone else.
- Fast Company - More like Dude-Ipedia: study shows Wikipedia's sexist bias Short but good piece taking a look at some computational linguistic analysis highlighting the nature and extent of Wikipedia's systemic bias.
- Geek Wire Meet the man ridding Wikipedia of ‘comprised of,’ one edit at a time
- Guardian Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong - further coverage of the man who changes every instance of "comprises of" on Wikipedia.
- Slate Wikipedia chews up and spits out bad facts and its own policies are letting it happen Good piece looking at GamerGate coverage, how original news coverage was wrong. Explains that WP policies mean that these incorrect pieces of coverage can now be used as references on Wikipedia for wrong information.
- Mirror Wikipedia to be beamed into space so aliens can learn about the human race
- Metro Scientists hope to contact aliens by beaming Wikipedia into space
- Mashable {http://mashable.com/2015/02/06/right-to-be-forgotten-europe-only/ - Google advisory panel on Right to be Forgotten wants RTBF to be limited in scope] - Jimmy Wales is part of the panel. This story has attracted lots of coverage in smaller outlets but larger outlets seem to be a bit bored of the story.
- Metro The aliens who stumble upon these Wikipedia articles may be too shocked to make contact - follow up to the story a couple of rows above, providing an excuse to get some easy content highlighting odd Wikipedia articles.
- Irish Times - Wikipedia editing class to build knowledge of Irish role in WWI
- Daily Mail - The scale of Right to be Forgotten, Google claims it has had to delete 260k search results
- Evolution News - The Lincoln-Darwin myth revisited - piece about Abraham Lincoln's views on evolution and an edit war on Wikipedia.
- Times Higher Education - Wikipedia should be better integrated into teaching - really useful piece that we can lean on about the use of Wikipedia, and its editing, by an academic.
- STV Dundee Join the campaign to improve coverage of women and art on Wikipedia Short piece about an art+feminism editathon taking place in March
- Quartz Wiki Wars - inside the increasingly nasty battle for Wikipedia's soul - a whistle stop tour of the furore over GameGate and the less interesting or important vandalism of Beck's article over the Grammys
- PopMatters Wikipedia controversy and the myth of neutrality Thoughtful piece looking at GamerGate (does a good job) and the broader issue of communications in tech lacking neutrality (particularly in terms of gender).
- Croydon Advertiser Aide admits removing 'unfair' entry on MP's Wikipedia page An aide to an MP has removed a link to a satirical article in the MP's BLP.
- Vox HG Wells predicted Wikipedia in 1937
- Sydney Morning Herald Sex, religion and John Howard - Wikipedia's most controversial pages - retread of an old piece listing the most tendentious articles on Wikipedia.
- Daily Mail Retread of the SMH article, but with a headline covering five lines
- Financial Times Editors for hire on Wikipedia Decent enough piece looking at paid editing
- Wired (US version) Meet the editors fighting racism and sexism on Wikipedia
- Slate blog On Wikipedia, GamerGate refuses to die
- Spectator {http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2015/03/mystery-surrounds-tory-mps-wikipedia-page/ Has a Tory MP been editing his own Wikipedia page?] Story about Calder Valley MP Craig Whittaker's staff editing his Wikipedia article from Parliament.
- Independent NYPD Wikipedia edits - see the most alarming changes allegedly made to online articles (There was a lot of international coverage of this story)
- Independent Grant Shapps adopts another pseudonym - the mystery of his middle name "V"
- Telegraph The BBC could have checked Wikipedia for the truth about Cyclone Pam
- Telegraph My Wikipedia page is completely wrong but I can't be caught correcting it
- Comscore Top 20 most visited web properties in the UK for Feb 2015 - Wikipedia / WM sites rank 11th
- Telegraph How much can we trust Wikipedia? Piece by Jamie Bartlett from Demos
- Time magazine Saving Wikipedia - feature about Lila Tretikov and the future direction of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation
- Telegraph University Challenge contestant puts his success down to reading lots of Wikipedia
- Huffington Post Piece by Jimmy Wales opn digital rights, entitled "To Protect the Most Fundamental Rights of Internet Users, We Must Always Be Skeptical of Any Call for Regulation"
- Oxford Internet Institute Does anyone read Wikipedia around election time?
- List.co.uk Sinitta has to change her Wikipedia page everyday as pranksters change her age
- Reveal.co.uk Sinitta has to keep changing her age on Wikipedia
- Radio Times Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales: Rather than being a selfless act, giving should be selfish
- Your Thurrock Is Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle-Price "too furious" after wikipedia page hacked as she takes on Lakeside Cruisers (again)
- Mirror Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales picks Disney's Frozen - Let it Go on Desert Island Discs
- OK Sinitta reveals constant battle over changing her age online
- BBC (video) Jimmy Wales: 'I'm a pathologically optimistic person"
- BBC Hand-sewn Wikipedia page marks Magna Carta anniversary
- Metro The list of deleted articles from Wikipedia might be the weirdest place on the internet
- Financial Times European court ruling: Storm over the ‘right to be forgotten’ rumbles on
- The Times (paywall) Mystery editors rewrite ministers’ Wiki history
- Guardian Hand-stitched Magna Carta Wikipedia page explores the fabric of democracy
- Mail Online Expenses claims and a sex scandal wiped from MPs' Wikipedia pages by computer users inside Parliament before election
- Mirror MPs expenses and sex scandals deleted from Wikipedia pages by computers inside parliament
- Express Expenses claims and sex scandal wiped from MPs' Wikipedia pages from INSIDE Parliament
- New Statesman The Wikipedia wars: does it matter if our biggest source of knowledge is written by men?
- Independent Sepp Blatter branded a 'tosser' as Wikipedia page is hacked
- Metro Someone in Whitehall just added David Cameron to the Wikipedia list of dictators
- Mirror Tories added to Wikipedia list of 'right-wing dictatorships' - by person on government computer
- Daily Mail £30,000 to teach pupils how to use Wikipedia: Fury after council pays IT expert to show children how to 'critically engage' with online encyclopaedia
- Metro Chelsea fan hacks Petr Cech’s Wikipedia page after he completes Arsenal transfer
- Irish Examiner Tsipras not author of Greek tragedy as mischievous Wikipedia suggested
- Independent Greece debt crisis - Alexis Tsipras is an author of Greek tragedy, says Wikipedia
- Daily Mail Michael Mandiberg prints Wikipedia in book form
- Metro This is what it looks like when you print all of Wikipedia
- Independent Paul Dunne's Wikipedia page edited to make him a golf machine created to rule the world
- Times Higher Education Supplement University hopes 'Wikipedian in residence' will tackle gender gap - A US university is hiring a Wikimedian in Residence to work specifically on the gender gap
- Venture Beat Wikipedia tests full-screen ads to help drive donations
- Pink News Tory MP’s Wikipedia entry ‘edited from Parliament’ to remove gay rights criticism
- Channel 4 A year in the life of Whitehall's Wikipedia warriors
- New Scientist Wikipedia is corrupting science with blowjobs and elves, scientists warn
- Wired Wikipedia wars are killing politically charged science
- Ars Technica Socially controversial science topics on Wikipedia draw edit wars
- Times Higher Education News blog: How big a sin is Zygmunt Bauman's alleged self-plagiarism?
- Independent Russia threatens to block Wikipedia over cannabis page
- Pure Content Wikipedia says that Google traffic will continue to fall
- Guardian Russia briefly bans Wikipedia over page relating to drug use]
- Independent Russia's internet watchdog goes to war with Wikipedia over cannabis page
- The Russia story was widely reported. No need to repeat all instances here as not a WMUK story.
- Huffington Post Jeremy Corbyn Is 'Completely Bonkers,' Says Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales
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