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 quickly; 4, There's no incident of vandalism (that I could see) that remained more than a couple of hours. In other words, our system works. But that's not news. -- Rexx On 24 April 2014 21:27, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk>wrote;wrote:

Just for some context, it's been reported in the Liverpool Echo - http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hillsborough-wikipedia-i… the Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/10786380/Insulting-revision… so please be aware it's a live story for now. If you happen to receive any enquiries, please do feel free to send them my way. Thanks and regards, Stevie On 24 April 2014 21:14, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: -- 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.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Some more today on the BBC (and probably others): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27203371 It's 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." Looks like a good write up (factually accurate) with some choice quotes from Stevie. Harry -- Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250) On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Stevie Benton <stevie.benton(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: Just for some context, it's been reported in the Liverpool Echo - http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hillsborough-wikipedia-i… and the Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/10786380/Insulting-revision… - so please be aware it's a live story for now. If you happen to receive any enquiries, please do feel free to send them my way. Thanks and regards, Stevie On 24 April 2014 21:14, Jon Davies <jon.davies(a)wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: 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 sound judgement of the community -- Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)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. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

Vandalism, surely! Stevie will be on to this but yes he handled this, as did others David, Seddon etc, sensibly. There was a time when this would be used to knock Wikipedia. Fingers crossed this will calm down now but you never know. On 30 April 2014 01:22, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- *Jon Davies - Chief Executive Wikimedia UK*. Mobile (0044) 7803 505 169 tweet @jonatreesdavies 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). Telephone (0044) 207 065 0990. Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk

On 30 Apr 2014, at 01:04, Harry Burt wrote: Some more today on the BBC (and probably others): Its currently on the BBC homepage with the description "The 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 On 30.04.2014 03:23, Jon Davies wrote: Yes, and yes. There was a time when this would be used to knock Wikipedia. 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 wikimediauk-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk