I'm pretty sure we will hear more over the coming days. There's bound to be all sorts of journalists having a play around with the various history tabs and user IDs, especially after David Gerard spoke about them so eloquently on FiveLive on Friday!
I dropped a note to Dave Lee and he's going to make the amend noted above. He also mentioned the piece was featured on the Today programme, too. Will see if I can find it. On 30 April 2014 09:17, Brian McNeil <brian.mcn...@wikinewsie.org> wrote: > On 30 Apr 2014, at 01:04, Harry Burt wrote: >>> >> > Some more today on the BBC (and probably others): >>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27203371 [14] >>>> >>> > Its currently on the BBC homepage with the description "The >>>> >>>> charity that represents Wikipedia in the UK has condemned edits >>>> made from government computers after more insults and vandalism >>>> emerged." >>>> >>> > This is what they've got from two IP addresses? Or, can we take it that: > "Government machines were also used to vandalise, or "troll", on several > pages, including: [...]" means the press are chasing other GSI addresses? > > > Looks like a good write up (factually accurate) with some choice >>>> quotes from Stevie. >>>> >>> > On 30.04.2014 03:23, Jon Davies wrote: > >> Vandalism, surely! >> > > Yes, and yes. > > > There was a time when this would be used to knock Wikipedia. >> Fingers crossed this will calm down now but you never know. >> > > The UK's tech press, including the BBC, are now capable of having as much > fun as we did with the US government[1]. I wonder how good they are at > finding out more IPs, and linking them up to government departments, or > offices. > > [1] http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_investigates_ > Wikipedia_usage_by_U.S._Senate_staff_members > > -- > Brian McNeil > -- > Wikinewsie.org | http://wikinewsie.org | https://en.wikinews.org > "Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news." > GPG Fingerprint: 7C3D FFD5 5ED5 B80F 1D18 A52B E84C 8928 6ABC A7AD > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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