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Wikipedia: The Text Adventure by Kevan Davis (all screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic)

You are standing in a crowdsourced world with millions of destinations. You can take several directions,each leading to a new pixelated place. The starting point is one of your own choosing, but the following locations can all be altered by volunteers around the globe.

Wikipedia: The Text Adventureturns the Wikipedia databases API into an old-school text adventure, which you navigate through typed directions. Created by developerKevan Davis, who previously used the data of Wikipedia in the autogenerated novel Around the World in X Wikipedia Articles, the Wikitext game offers a fresh perspective on this massive organized dataset of information. At the beginning, you can choose from suggested entries, such as the Statue of Liberty or the Tree That Owns Itself, or enter anything you want (provided it has geographic coordinates). From there, players move along the cardinal directions to new entries, each announced with a brief snippet of its text and an image pixelated like a 1980s game.

Users who remember interacting with those more rudimentary video games will enjoy discovering commands like take to add any object to your inventory (I picked up Pittsburgh and the glass cube from the American Museum of Natural History). Theres also jump, sing, and talk, although these mainly result in some dead-end humor (You jump on the spot, fruitlessly). I decided to start at Frank Lloyd Wrights Fallingwater and soon found myself wandering the unfamiliar architecture of Pittsburgh, before relocating to Manhattan for some museum hopping.

Its interesting to stumble upon the gaps in photographs, data, and knowledge in Wikipedia as voids in an unfolding maze, as well as exploring what works of art in, say, the Museum of Modern Art are worthy of their own entries. The wealth of information constantly being edited and updated in the rabbit hole that is Wikipedia can be overwhelming and endlessly fascinating. (Im a bit obsessed with the often incredibly specific image category names.) Wikitext is a playful way of wayfinding through it. And fear not, there is nodanger of being eaten by a grue or encounteringlurking horrorson this online quest.

Wikipedia: The Text Adventure is available to play free online.

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A 1980s-Style Game Takes You Through a Wikipedia Rabbit Hole - Hyperallergic

We are all aware of the large reach and popularity of Wikipedia. However, what most people dont know is that, according to astudyconducted in 2011, only 9% of the editors at Wikipedia were women. And the percentage for India is even lower, just 3%.

Wikipedia recognises thesystemic gender biasthat is created because of factors such as these and thus enables its diverse range of users to edit and create Wikipedia pages, with reliable and authentic sources.

Feminism in Indiaconducts monthly Wikipedia edit-a-thons with different partners exploring various facets of gender in India, thus increasing content on women and marginalized communities on Wikipedia as well as training women to create and edit Wikipedia pages and hence increasing the number of women editors.

For August, we themed our monthly edit-a-thon around Independence Day and hosted one on Indian Women Freedom Fighters at our New Delhi office. The edit-a-thon was aimed at creating/editing Wikipedia pages of Indian women freedom fighters who lack representation on the platform currently.

We prepared a list of women freedom fighters a week before the edit-a-thon, while most of the names had a page on Wikipedia with very basic and limited information (stub pages), only one did not have a page on English Wikipedia (but in Marathi Wikipedia).

We also faced challenges finding information on the web in form of Google books, news links among others on these women freedom fighters.

We were a group of 7 participants in total.The event began with a discussion on the whys and hows of Wikipedia editing for new-comers.

After that, each participant chose one or more Indian woman freedom fighter absent from Wikipedia, and started digging through the internet looking for interviews, news reports and e-books that mentioned their chosen freedom fighter to write comprehensive Wikipedia articles on them.

By the end of the day, the participants had created and edited a total of about 12 Wikipedia pages in English.

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Indian Women Freedom Fighters: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - Feminism in India (blog)

Claire Murray, Alice White and Jess Wade, Imperial College London, are concerned about the underrepresentation of women on Wikipedia. They explain how they are working to change this, one wikithon at a time.

In a world where we rely on technology to feed facts to our fingertips, we assume that the terabytes of information online is up-to-date, unbiased and accurate.

Only 20 years ago, all of this information would have been deep within encyclopaedias, stored safely on the shelves of libraries, carefully consulted for clarification. In 2017, we instead assume that everyone of importance has, at the very minimum, a biography on Wikipedia.

But wait just a minute right there! Profiling English-language Wikipedia reveals that only 17% of the biography articles pages are for women. And this 17% is a big improvement on the 14% only six years ago. To quote a world leader: "SAD!" There are clearly heaps of notable women without Wikipedia representation across all disciplines, before we even start to think about women in chemistry.

More here:
Improving gender balance on Wikipedia - Royal Society of Chemistry

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Hanan Ben Ari is an Israeli music superstar. Born in the religious village of Karnei Shomron and having studied in several Religious Zionist yeshivas, he still managed to become a crossover hit among Israel's secular public.

Ben Ari cemented his position in the Israeli music scene this past year, when one of his songs, 'Tutim' (strawberries) was named song of the year in the Israeli annual Hebrew song chart which aired on Army Radio.

Ben Ari's latest single 'Wikipedia' caused a storm among the religious public when it was recently released. In the song, he begs the public not to look at him as a representative of the larger religious community, and implores the public not to believe in stereotypes.

"Erase everything you knew about me up to this point," Ben Ari sings. "No, I am not a settler, not a representative of God, not someone who segregates women, not a bridge between the societal sectors."

The song caused a storm in the religious community. Many thought that Ben Ari was trying to hide his affiliation with the Religious Zionist community, criticism that he rebuffed.

"Stop putting people in a cage and saying, 'He's religious, he makes music for the religious and he does music that deals only with religious issues," Ben Ari said.

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Watch: Hanan Ben Ari in 'Wikipedia' - Arutz Sheva