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The gender gap just got a little smaller. Thanks to the fourth annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,over 6,500 women artists have new or expanded Wikipedia entries.Across over 200 events held around the world in March, Womens History Month, 2,500 participants did their part to fight the Wikipedia gender gapby improving online resources about women artists.

The edit-a-thon was founded in part to increase female editorship on the site, in response to a 2011 survey that found that that less than 10 percent of contributors were women. According to the event organizers and Art+Feminism, this years initiative nearly doubled the impact of the 2016 iteration.

We were heartened by the response to our call to arms to fight against disinformation and fake news with facts, said Art+Feminism organizers Sin Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, McKensie Mack, and Michael Mandiberg. We continue to be inspired by all the dedicated folks who make room in their busy schedules to share skills and improve a collectively held resource like Wikipedia.

Edit-a-thon events were held at some of the worlds biggest art institutions, including New Yorks Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Alternative organizations such as the Open Foundation West Africa in Accra and Transgender Europe in Berlin also took part.

Divya Mehra, Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory), 2017. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Among the women now represented on Wikipedia for the first time are Brazilian Constructivist Lygia Clark and Hannah Black, one of the loudest voices in the recent Whitney Biennial controversy over Dana Schutzs painting of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, a young African American boy who was lynched in 1955.

This years edit-a-thon also saw Art+Feminism debut its Call to Action Art Commission program, which selects an artist to create a Creative Commons licensed artwork. The inaugural commission,Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory), byDivya Mehra, features the word edit written across a gas can, pointing to the combustible power of expanding womens presence in Wikipedia.

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With all eyes on Turkey's referendum vote on Sunday, one Wikipedia user decided it was his or her chance to take a swipe at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who stands to have his power consolidated as a result of the "yes" vote.

In the first sentence of the English-language Wikipedia article on Erdogan, the user called the Turkish president a dictator. The edit has since been removed and cannot be edited by unregistered users forat least one week.

The English-language Wikipedia entry for President Erdogan, as it appeared ca. 20:00 UTC on Sunday, April 16

The user is not alone in criticizing Erdogan. Following the attempted military coup in July 2016, Turkey has been under a state of emergency that has been strongly criticized by foreign leaders as heading down the path towards a dictatorship.The state of emergency givesthe Turkish government the power to fire state employees and extended the time suspects can be held in jail without being charged.

More than 100,000 people, including soldiers, police officers and teachers have been removed from their positions since the start of the state of emergency. At least 40,000 people have been arrestedfollowing the attempted coup in Turkey for suspected links to US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey accuses of influencing last year's attempted coup.

Sunday's referendum vote is set to consolidate Erdogan's powers, including the right to create budgets, dissolve parliament, and appoint and dismiss government ministers or judges without parliamentary approval.

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Steven Goldstein

Following my previous two posts on the Anne Frank Center and how it was misrepresenting itself, someone (not me) edited itsWikipedia page to reflect the lies I had exposed, adding this to the History of the Organization section:

Although at one time the Center claimed, on its website, to have been founded by Anne Franks father Otto Frank, as of April 2017, it no longer makes that claim. [1][9] It has variously claimed to have been founded by Mr. Frank in 1959 and in 1977.[10] In 1977, Mr. Frank would have been 88 years old and living in Basel, Switzerland. [11][12] The Center does not appear to have any connection to the Anne Frank Fonds. [13]

They also changed this:

The organizations choice of Mutual Respect for its expanded name was inspired by Otto Frank, who founded the organization to help build a world based on equal rights and mutual respect.

To this:

The organizations choice of Mutual Respect for its expanded name was inspired by Otto Frank, although the name change occured 36 years after Mr. Franks death.

Steve Goldstein, the centers executive director, has reacted furiously, removing the edits and leaving this comment:

This is Steven Goldstein, Executive Director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect. Someone made hostile and actionable changes to our Wikipedia page that we took out in this edit.

But he also removed the following part of the History section, including references to Otto Frank.

Other Anne Frank organizations include the museum, Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, which opened in 1960; and the charitable foundation founded by Otto Frank in 1963, the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland.

From 1942 to 1944, Anne, her sister Margot and their parents Otto and Edith hid in a secret annex at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, along with four other Jews. The Nazis, acting on an anonymous tip, found all eight in 1944, and would kill all but Otto. Anne died in 1945 at age 15 at the Bergen-Belsenconcentration camp.

Earlier in his life, Otto Frank lived in the United States. At age 19, he came to New York to do an apprenticeship at Macys before he returned home to Germany. After Anne died, he realized even more the importance of the American market in preserving Annes legacy. The success of 1955 Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank had made Annes diary the book an international sensation. Four years later, he established the Anne Frank organization in the United States.

This all seems to confirm to me that, despite Goldsteins indignation, they were lying all along.

Good job on the Wikipedia edits, Steve, correcting the lies I exposed. Although it looks like someone added them back in.

And you might want to also change the information on your website, which is still false.

Update: At some point after my posts, Goldstein made his Twitter account private:

I think I struck a nerve.

Update: Yep, I did.

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Wikipedia is a fantastic tool, and it teaches us the value of fact-checking The San Luis Obispo Tribune Wikipedia is brilliant and democratic, offering free information that can be edited by readers. Although false information sometimes shows up in entries (readers who spot such anomalies can correct them, or can notify the website), Wikipedia is a ...

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If you think you have expertise in the wide word or cannabis, heres your chance to share your knowledge. Beginning on Saturday and ending April 30, a group ofWikipedia editors willdive deep into the weeds and create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history,medicine, politics, and religion.

The massive undertaking,organized byWikiProject Cannabis, is being dubbed a420 collaboration. According to the projects coordinators, there are three overarching goals to the endeavor:

As is clear from the invitation, this is not the forum for aficionados to pontificate on why the color orange is much brighterafter toking on a joint of Mango Kush. Nor is itan invitation for you to tell the story about that time your Aunt Midge ate a marijuana-laced brownie and thought she was a pole dancer.

The mission, shouldyou bewilling to accept it, is to provide accurate, sourced information on the various segments of cannabis.

Here is more from the projects organizers:

Cannabis has long been used for hemp fibre, for hemp oils, for medicinal purposes, and for personal use. The plant has a history of medicinal use dating back thousands of years across many cultures, and touches on many different fields of study. This collaboration is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis.

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