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Chicago has been making waves for it's unique and diverse hip-hop scenes, boasting an epic array of young rappers like Chief Keef, Chance The Rapper, and Mick Jenkins. Yet the scene has also birthed a talented wave of singers, including Jean Deaux. With a lovely voice and atmospheric aesthetic, Deaux has excelled on collaborations with the aforementioned Jenkins, as well as her own solo material. On that note, Jean has come through with a new single called "Wikipedia," in honor of the aspiring academic's favorite faux pas.

The smooth jam is produced by ROMderful, and serves as a worthy introduction to the up-and-comer's world. Insofar as the concept goes, Jean had the following to say about "Wikipedia:" People are going to try and tell you who you are every step of the way, they'll even knock you down to convince you. But you get stronger every time you get up on your feet and continue walking in your own truth."

It's a powerful message, and Jean continues to drop knowledge when elaborating on her creative process:

"Writing music depends on my mood. If I feel I have a lot of things bottled up they'll spill out in any convenient melody I can find in a song. 'Wikipedia' was like that.When I got the beat from ROM, I wrote the song on paper in like less than 10 minutes. Smino recorded me, and that was it. I spent my time after tour touching it up, the people that saw me perform it really connected with it and they were ready to have it."

Speaking of Smino, Jean Deaux recently toured North America with the St. Louis singer. If you're feeling Jean's first solo release of 2017, you should be pleased to know that she's hard at work on her next EP, which is still untitled.

Quotable Lyrics

Oh no, somebody at the door You know how she got that cola body cause she do that coka Know I seen her before, heard it through the grapevine Buzzin' through the phone lines, callin' for the fourth time

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Welcome to the Nickelback edition of Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?. In this episode of our signature series, we invited the entirety of Nickelback to prove and disprove whats written about them on Wikipedia.

This segment is packed with a ridiculous amount of fiction, so all you Wiki debunkers should love this one. Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger actually corrected an entry about getting a $4,000 loan from his stepfather so the band could record the Hesher EP. Actually, only half the money was spent on recording, while the other half went to buying magic mushrooms. Kroeger quickly recouped the studio cost by slinging shrooms, eventually paying back his stepfather as well.

Nickelback also debunked an interpretation of their song Fly. Whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry believed that the song ends with Chad Kroeger killing himself, but the singer gave the X to that factoid.

The band also managed to clear up what happened to former drummer Mitch Guindon. Though Wikipedia says he left to go work at a car company, Nickelback say they actually kicked him out. Apparently, Guindon wasnt suited for the road anyway. He was not meant for the road, Chad claims. He was allergic to cold air. We got to the middle of Canada in winter, and obviously its gonna be cold as hell, and his skin started coming off his body. Hes like, Yeah, I cant do this.

Watch Nickelback correct their many Wikipedia pages in the clip above. Also, make sure to grab the bands newest album, Feed the Machine.

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Go home Wikipedia, you're drunk. It's not Malaika Arora's birthday. But she forgives you Times Now While the internet was busy celebrating Malika Arora's birthday on Wednesday, much to everyone's surprise, the actress revealed that today is not The Day. That's a big time oopsie, Wikipedia. Malaika is overwhelmed by the love though and the 43-year ... It's Not Malaika Arora's Birthday (Grrr, Wikipedia). But We Can Still Look At These Fab PicsNDTV OMG! It's not Malaika Arora's birthday today, Wikipedia goes wrongFree Press Journal Malaika Arora Blamed Wikipedia For Erroneously Stating Her Birthday, Tells Fans To Save The Real DateIndia.com iDiva.com all 44 news articles »

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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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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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