When I did a round of Radio Interviews for regional radio stations on the day of the Wikipedia blackout in January the same point was put to me in a question.
The BBC was particularly bad. Steve V From: wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Richard Symonds Sent: 09 March 2012 13:52 To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Indie story on HoC editing Classic case, I'm afraid, of a journalist not quite doing his research. He spoke to us a few weeks ago and we made it quite clear that we're seperate, distinct organisations, and that we don't 'own' Wikipedia or anything of the sort... We've corrected the article since! Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0992 -- Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Charitable Company Registered in England and Wales, No: 6741827. Charity No:1144513 Office: 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the local chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). It is an independent non-profit organization with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. On 09/03/2012 13:48, Charles Matthews wrote: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/who-are-the-commons-moles-chan ging-wikipedia-entries-7545991.html Amusingly the hard copy version had WMUK owning WP, which would have been a simplification in speaking to Sue G, but otherwise troublesome. But someone (i.e. Jon Davies) told them otherwise. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
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