[Wikimedia-l] Slate article on Gibraltar

[Richard Farmbrough]

To give some idea of how poor the research for the writing is:

"/This article originally and incorrectly referred to Gibraltar as an 
island. It is a peninsula."/

Were they to correct the rest of the errors in the article there would 
be very little of the original left.

Just as an example:

" Wikimedia U.K. (which controls all Wikipedia platforms in Britain)"

Arguably since there are no Wikipedia platforms in Britain this could be 
said to be true. But it is misleading or nonsensical at best.

On 20/09/2012 19:25, Richard Symonds wrote:
> User:Panyd, who spotted the start of this whole incident on DYK, gave an
> interview with Slate magazine, which she's been very misquoted in and is a
> little upset about. She just emailed the UK list explaining her thoughts on
> all this, so I'm sharing them here:
> *