When I did a round of Radio Interviews for regional radio stations on the day of the Wikipedia blackout in January the same point was put to me in a question.
The BBC was particularly bad.
Steve V
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Classic case, I'm afraid, of a journalist not quite doing his research. He spoke to us a few weeks ago and we made it quite clear that we're seperate, distinct organisations, and that we don't 'own' Wikipedia or anything of the sort... We've corrected the article since!
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On 09/03/2012 13:48, Charles Matthews wrote:
Amusingly the hard copy version had WMUK owning WP, which would have been a simplification in speaking to Sue G, but otherwise troublesome. But someone (i.e. Jon Davies) told them otherwise.
Charles
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