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It's cool thatanyone can update Wikipedia with any info that they want. It's even better when they write something as awesome as this about Ryan Fitzpatrick.

If you've never used Wikipedia, it'sdescribed as "an online free content encyclopedia project helping create a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge." So the idea is that anyone can update or edit Wikipedia at any time. While a lot of the info on that site is factual,unless you check with the sources of the update at the bottom, it's tough to verify it.

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However, I will verify that whoever updated Ryan Fitzpatrick's Wikipedia page recently was right on. They could not have been more descriptive about Ryan Fitzpatrick and his involvement at the Bills game last Saturday night when they took on the Patriots at Highmark Stadium.

It has since been deleted, but luckily, someone took a screenshot:

attachment-Ryan Fitzpatrick Wikipedia page

Here's what's true about it:

Here's what's hilarious about it:

You know what? Now that I look at it, I'm not too sure that the whole thing isn't true.

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Wikipedia, the free online encyclopediacurated by volunteer community editors, found itself at the center of conversations about whether to categorize non-fungible tokens as "art." Da-Kuk via Getty Images

Fans of the Instagram account @depthsofwikipedia know that Wikipedia editors have a passion for lists, be they precise charts of animal sounds or catalogs of ill-fated inventors. On the free online encyclopedia, teams of community volunteers work to curate reliable sources and occasionally engage in lengthy forum debates about the finer details of maintaining the sites vast number of entries.

One such debate among editors attracted widespread attention in late December, as moderators on the Wikipedia list of most expensive artworks by living artists sparred over whether to include non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. The question hinged on whether an NFT, a relatively new digital phenomenon, could be classified as a work of art, reports Artnet News.

Earlier this month, five out of six community editors voted not to include NFTs on the most-expensive list, according to Brian Quarmby of Cointelegraph. (These changes have yet to take effect; as Artnet News points out, as of Monday.)

Some users debated the results and cited examples of conceptual art to argue in favor of NFTs inclusion, as Radhika Parashar reports for Gadgets 360. Others argued that NFTs are still a relatively new phenomenon and therefore too difficult to classify.

Wikipedia really cant be in the business of deciding what counts as art or not, which is why putting NFTs, art or not, in their own list makes things a lot simpler, argues one editor under the username jonas.

NFTs have their own list, which should be linked in the article, and entries generally shouldn't be listed in both, writes jonas.

Talk about NFTs flooded many corners of the internet early last year. Known as a form of digital tokens, they are unique and indivisible codes that indicate the authenticity of a digital file or piece of art. Systems for buying, selling and owning NFTs all take place online with the help of blockchain technology, used commonly in cryptocurrency trading.

Since then, NFTs of digital art have sold for unprecedented sums. A graphic designer, known as Beeple, sold Everydays: The First 5000 Days, an NFT of 5,000 of his daily sketches, for an eye-popping $69.3 million through Christies auction house in March 2021. And designer Pak sold an NFT, Merge, for $91.8 million in December. (Many economists interpret the sky-high prices of NFTs as result of a market bubble that will inevitably burst, similarly to the Beanie Baby craze of the 1990s, writes Emily Stewart for Vox.)

Beeple and Paks creations are two works that, if classified as art by Wikipedia editors, would rank third and eighth respectively on the most-expensive list, per Artnet.

Following the Wikipedia debate, some in the pro-cryptocurrency camp began to take notice. Duncan Cock Foster, a co-founder of digital art auction platform Nifty Gateway, took to Twitter to complain that NFTs exclusion from the most-expensive art list qualified as a disaster.

Speaking with Helen Holmes of the Observer, Foster added, Anyone with a bit of common sense knows that artists who create NFTs are artists [S]aying an NFT artwork shouldnt be included on a list of artworks is just because it is an NFT is arbitrary and wrong.

As Gareth Harris reports for the Art Newspaper, some museums have tentatively waded into the NFT frenzy. The British Museum (BM) in London put 200 NFTs of works by Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai up for sale last year. The museum now plans to repeat the feat by selling tokens of works by Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner. Prices for Turner tokens start at about $912 (799).

Jasper Johns, who sold Flag (1954-1955) in 2010 for $110 million, and Damien Hirst, who sold For the Love of God (2007) three years earlier for $100 million, currently top the living-artist list. Also on the list are sculptor Jeff Koons and painter David Hockney, whose 1972 work Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for $90.3 million in 2018.

After Beeple sold 5000 Days for a record price in March 2021, Hockney criticized the workand the NFT trend writ largein a podcast interview.

I saw the pictures, says Hockney, referring to the mosaic of images that constitutes Beeples digital work.

But I mean, it just looked like silly little things, the artist adds. I couldnt make out what it was, actually.

Even Wikipedia itself has signed on as a participant in the NFT trend.Last year, co-founder Jimmy Wales sold the sites first edit for $750,000 as an NFT at Christies auction house, as Jack Guy for CNN reported at the time.

Per Artnet News, Wikipedia editors agreed to revisit the NFT conversation at a later date following the vote. Those interested can read the debate in full on the articles discussion page.

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WikiTrivia is a deceptively simple game that has consumed my entire morning. Wordle is fun, but its over quickly. WikiTrivia you can play over and over again. Players sort random events in history along a timeline. When the game opens, you have one event and youre asked to place another either before or after the first event occurred. Did Philip the Apostle die before or after the sitcom New Girl completed its run?

WikiTrivia starts easy, but as the game goes on the dates get tighter and things get harder. Its also punishingly random. I had one game that asked me to order the start date of three game consoles before plunging into the depths of history. How was I to know that the Mughal Empire was founded after the founding of the Stavnger municipality in Norway?

The game lets you make three mistakes before it ends. It also keeps track of your best streaks. My current streak is 12. Both of my editors have streaks of 13. This eats at my guts and forces me to play another round after every sentence I type, yearning to beat them at the game before I publish this blog. I just lost another game because I didnt know that journalist Theodor Herzl was born after the publishing of The Lady of Shalott but before the birth of Javier Bardem.

This game also eats your time by sending you down Wikipedia rabbit holes. It generates each game pulling data from Wikipedia and Wikidata, so every entry has an attendant article you can dive into. I just learned a little about Constantine XI Palaigos, the last reigning Byzantine Empire thanks to WikiTrivia.

WikiTrivia is rough around the edges. In one of my games, it dated the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire as occurring in year 1. In another game, a colleague was told that the Puma clothing brand was founded in the year 0. Sometimes pictures or factoids dont load. The game is the work of software engineer Tom James Watson, and he keeps track of the game's various bugs on a Github page. Hes slowly working through them, always improving it.

As Watson seeks to refine and improve WikiTrivia, I too seek to improve my streak. The small bugs dont stop me from playing it. Every time I tab over to the screen to pull a piece of information, find a link, or take a screenshot for this blog, I find myself playing another round. I'm convinced, if I try one more time, I can beat my bosses streaks.

Just one more game.

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NEWS | FEATURES | PREVIEWS | EVENTSoriginally published: 01/20/2022

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- In honor of Womens History Month, Art House Productions, along with Hudson County Community College, Seton Hall University, Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark, Rutgers University - Newark, and The Feminist Art Project, a program of the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, will present Art+Feminism Art Talk and Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon on Wednesday, March 8 at 11:00am EST via Zoom.

Attendees of the 2022 Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon will learn how to edit and create Wikipedia pages for artists who are women, gender diverse, and/or people of color. Building on the work done since this program began in 2020, attendees will enrich and expand the presence of women in this widely read digital resource, which is also the foundation of many linked data projects. The goal of the workshop is to amplify the voices of artists and cultural workers who are often underrepresented in digital resources and in the arts. All are invited to register to become Wikipedians and edit or create a Wikipedia page for an artist.

According to the Art+Feminism website, the non-profit organization directly addresses the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. This is accomplished through a coordinated campaign of online training materials and volunteer-organized edit-a-thons at a variety of cultural and intellectual institutions across the globe. Since 2014, over 18,000 people at more than 1,260 events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 84,000 articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects.

"We are proud to partner again on this important virtual event supporting the worldwide movement to amplify gender diverse artists through Wikipedia," says Producing Director Courtney Little. "This is an incredible opportunity for community members to learn from each other and to enrich Wikipedia to include more voices and perspectives."

Free registration is available at: https://bit.Ly/3tE8bYq The event will feature closed captions autogenerated by Zoom. To request ASL interpreters, please email info@arthouseproductions.org at least 72 hours before the event.

Art House Productions was founded in late September 2001 by Christine Goodman, a community leader and professional performing artist. Art House began as an informal gathering of poets and community members in direct response to the tragedies of September 11th. At that time, there were no consistent performance venues for artists in Jersey City to meet one another and share new work. Art House's inaugural event sprung from the desire to connect a devastated community through art and dialogue.Since then, Art House has established itself as a pioneer of artistic and cultural programming in Hudson County.

In 2007, Art House became incorporated and was grantednonprofit 501(c)(3) status. In late 2007, the organization was presented with the Key to the City and an official Proclamation for its outstanding contributions to the City of Jersey City, NJ.

In 2021, Art House Productions merged with Jersey Art Exchange (JAX) to increase and enhance existing education programs.

In 2022, Art House Productions will move into a permanent home at 180 Morgan St in Jersey City, NJ. The development comes courtesy ofSilverman,The Albanese Group, andLiberty Harbor.The state-of-the-art facility will include a gallery, black box theater with dressing rooms, and administrative offices.

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A Strawberry iMac, APPLE COMPUTER INC., 2000. Jimmy Waless personal iMac used in the creation of Wikipedia.

In 2000, entrepreneur and bond trader Jimmy Wales founded Nupedia, an online encyclopedia for peer-reviewed articles written by experts. A year later, amid a slow trickle of sanctioned articles, he launched a supplementary open-source internet encyclopedia that used collaborative wiki software, and Wikipedia was born. In its two decades of existence, Wikipedia has attained an astonishing depth and breadth: the English Wikipedia alone one of over 300 Wikipedia language editions boasts over 6.4 million articles with more than 250 million page views a day.

This month, the genesis of our online collective memory was commemorated with a sale at Christies, in collaboration with Wales. Hosted where else? online, The Birth of Wikipedia sale took place from December 3 to 15 and offered up two lots: a 2000 strawberry iMac that Wales used to develop Wikipedia, and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit, which was made by Wales on January 15, 2001, the day that the platform launched. The bidding on both items opened at a low $100. Wales iMac ultimately realized $187,500, while the NFT skyrocketed to $750,000.

Wales used the roseate personal computer for research and development in Wikipedias early days. As the Rubenesque desktop neared obsolescence, the device was relegated to the room of his young daughter, who used it to play video games, a statement from Christies said. An auction house representative told Hyperallergic that the computer is still functional, but it is quite an old computer, and you can expect it to behave like so. It comes with the original box.

In the NFT on offer, the first edit to Wikipedia in which Wales typed, Hello, World!, a classic programming reference is embedded in a recreation of the sites original homepage from 2001. Structurally echoing a Wikipedia page, an interactive feature allows the buyer to grant anyone editing access to the NFT. A timer function resets the page to its original form after set intervals.

Its been over twenty years since I first typed in the words Hello, World! to launch Wikipedia and even today, Im still amazed at the size and breadth of what it has become, said Wales in a statement.

Wales, who found himself disappointed with Facebook and Twitter, launched the alternative nontoxic social network WT.Social in October 2019; a portion of the proceeds from the auction will go toward the advertisement-free platform, which runs on donations. Some of the funds will also be directed toward charities working in the free culture world, a statement from Christies said.

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