This sort of thing is happening a bit lately. It strikes me as possibly a somewhat more manageable form of expert participation than throwing individual well-meaning experts into a wiki cagefight with individual persistent idiots. How's the community tending to treat such groups?
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin Poulter M.L.Poulter@bristol.ac.uk Date: 4 April 2011 11:38 Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] Media coverage of Cancer Research UK workshop To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
BBC News (linked from front page and 4th most popular item currently!) Cancer charity to tidy up Wikipedia http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12887075
The Times Cancer Research UK to edit information on Wikipedia http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article2971655.ece (NB behind a paywall)
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