Hi Kiril, We can confirm that Duncan has been in touch with the press team at the Foundation and has contacted other Wikimedia volunteers for this story.
Thank you for checking this with us. We welcome volunteers to reach out to our team on [email protected] for any support on running background on any reporter/media outlets before deciding on responding to media requests. Warmly, Media Relations Team (WMF) On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM Kiril Simeonovski via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > About four months ago, I was contacted by a freelance journalist named > Duncan Fyfe with a couple of questions about deletion requests (AfDs) on > the English Wikipedia. He explained that he was preparing an article for > the *Wired* magazine and had already contacted other experienced > Wikipedians with similar questions. I made a quick search to discover that > Duncan Fyfe is a legitimate journalist and *Wired* is a reputable > magazine, so I answered the questions to the best of my ability. > > Over the following two months, he followed up with more specific questions > about my involvement in AfDs on the English Wikipedia, my personal > interpretation of notability, and the interactions with single-purpose > temporary accounts who are there to illustrate their point. I provided > detailed answers to all those questions. > > Today, he wrote me that the article was sent to *Wired*’s fact-checker > Daniel Roman, who might have some additional questions before it gets > published. > > So far, I do not see a clear sign that this is a scam, but I would like to > know if anyone else was recently contacted by the same journalist or others > working for *Wired* with questions about Wikipedia? > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > Kiril > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/FXDPN5Q5QFLBSSX6IPZAWMMIU63JWJRQ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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