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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.

For more information, visit the invitation.

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Think You Know A Thing Or Two About Marijuana? Wikipedia Launches 420 Project - The Fresh Toast

Burger King's latest ad stunt is resulting in some less-than-flattering descriptions of its Whopper sandwich.

The hamburger chain unveiled a 15-second ad Wednesday designed to trigger Google Home devices into reciting the definition of a Whopper, pulled from the website Wikipedia. But the website can be edited by users, and the definition had been changed to insert "cyanide" as an ingredient in one version. Another user later changed the definition to say the Whopper is "the worst hamburger product" sold by the chain.

Burger King, owned by Restaurant Brands International, says it is not behind the negative edits and that it has been trying to change the definition back to one that it was hoping to promote.

As of late Wednesday afternoon, the Wikipedia entry included a lengthy description that said the burger "has undergone several reformulations including resizing and bread changes." It also noted that the Whopper is often "at the center of advertising promotions, product tie-ins, and even corporate practical jokes and hoaxes."

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Whats the story?

Jeff Jarrett has just revealed on his official social media handle that Wikipedia has his personal details wrong, having listed his birthday as April 14th, 1967 instead of July 14th of the same year.

Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett is a bignamein pro wrestling circles, with a career that dates back to 1986. Double J is also the co-founder of TNA (now re-branded as Impact Wrestling) and more recently has pioneered GFW (Global Force Wrestling).

In what appears to be a critical typographic error on part of Wikipedia, Jarretts birthday that was listed as today, resulted in several of The King of the Mountains fans sending him birthday wishes.

The former 6-time WWE (then-WWF) Intercontinental champion clarified his date of birth in his latest tweet:

Jarrett is presently contracted to Impact Wrestling, a company that he pioneeredin the role of an Executive Producer. The former WCW stalwart will also be seen in an on-screen capacity in the Impact Zone, besides being in charge of the companys day-to-day operations.

Well, as someone who has been made to stand out of class due to mistakes in my notes, I, for one, cannot possibly bring myself to blame Wikipedia. Now, I know that its expected to be one of the most reliable sources for legitimate information and yada, yada, yadabut the folks over at the website are, after all, human.

Nevertheless, Double J is here to save the day and Delete the confusion! Wait, were not allowed to utter the words of Deletion, right TNA?

Shout out to Double J and the Broken Hardys!

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The idea was straightforward, dreamed up by advertising executives as another way to promote the hamburger brand across social media and at the same time demonstrating that it's in tune with social media and new technology. The idea involved the new style of adverts that and activate technology (which some people like whereas others find annoying and intrusive). A Burger King television advert which was put together and designed to activate Google Home smart speakers as well as some Android smartphones (depending on the configuration). These connected devices would then read information about Burger King's best-selling Whopper burgers via the description about the burgers on Wikipedia. The problem was that someone had gone in an edited the Wikipedia page. The commercials, The Washington Post reports, aired during Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon shows broadcast in the U.S. on April, 12 The basis of the 15-second advert was a Burger King employee asking "OK, Google. What is the Whopper burger?" On being spoken, any one watching the advert with this Google function enabled would have their device speak to them, with the text drawn from the appropriate Wikipedia page. It didn't cross the minds of advertising executives, when they brainstormed the idea, that linking to a webpage that scores of people have editing rights to might not be such a good idea. The problem faced by Burger King, according to the BBC, was that a person had edited Wikipedia to describe the Whopper as the "worst hamburger product". It appears that a second person added cyanide to the list of ingredients (which of course it does not contain a toxin). The advert was quickly blocked from linking to Wikipedia as soon as the inaccurate information was realized. Whether another company will try such a trick again remains to be seen. Based on comments on the advert's YouTube page, as reported by The Verge, many consumers did not appreciate having their devices hijacked

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Burger King advert sabotaged on Wikipedia BBC News The ad triggered the devices to read out information about the burgers from online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. However, somebody edited Wikipedia to describe the Whopper as the "worst hamburger product" and another added cyanide to the list of ingredients ... Burger King ad backfires after asking Google what's in a Whopper and is told 'cyanide'The Independent Burger King's 'OK Google' ad ruined by Wikipedia edits, Google changesUPI.com Burger King's Whopper gets prank Wikipedia edits in ad gagSacramento Bee SPIN -The Hindu -YouTube -The Verge all 246 news articles »

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