Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Hillsborough page

2014-04-24 Thread rexx
For the curious, this edit that started all the newspaper fuss: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hillsborough_disaster&diff=283956539&oldid=283955440 from *gateway-202.energis.gsi.gov.uk * lasted just four minutes before being removed by another IP

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Hillsborough page

2014-04-24 Thread rexx
If you spend a short while looking through the history of the article, you can see that: 1. there has been all sorts of vandalism over the years; 2. Cluebot caught a lot of the vandalism within a minute of it being made; 3. It's well-watched and editors reverted the rest of the vandalism quite qui

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Hillsborough page

2014-04-24 Thread Stevie Benton
Just for some context, it's been reported in the Liverpool Echo - http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hillsborough-wikipedia-insults-added-government-7029881and the Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/10786380/Insulting-revisions-to-Wikipedia-entry-on-Hillsbor

[Wikimediauk-l] Hillsborough page

2014-04-24 Thread Jon Davies
Just to alert anyone a journalist has been in touch regarding some reported vandalism to the article about the Hillsborough Disaster = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster We have explained how it is the community of editors who look after the content and that we have faith in the so

[Wikimediauk-l] Contractor scoping brief: call for tenders

2014-04-24 Thread Richard Nevell
In order to further the charity's goal of encouraging and supporting technological innovation, Wikimedia UK are looking for a contractor to undertake a scoping exercise to report to the charity's Board with proposals for how best we can achieve our mission in this respect. Details of the tender can