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Meet Fraser Hobday: The amateur goalkeeper with a bigger Wikipedia page than Neymar

An amateur footballer has become something of a folk hero on social media - after giving himself a bigger Wikipedia page than Brazilian superstar Neymar.

Huntly FC can be found in Scotland's Highland League, where they sit bottom of the table with a goal difference of minus 33.

But goalkeeper Fraser Hobday, a 19-year-old cafe worker, has posted his entire career and life story online - from his early days at primary school.

Hobday, a trainee chef, has detailed his modest achievements in a mammoth 3,271-word biography, from his days at Dunottar Primary School.

It runs through a youth career featuring six different sides, up to his time failing to keep clean sheets for Huntly and facing a penalty in his first match for the Highlanders - which he conceded.

"Fraser was involved in the Dunnottar Primary School football team from its establishment in 2005. He was picked at the first time of asking, when the school held trials for Primaries 5, 6 and 7.

"Fraser was then in Primary 5. He played consistently for three years, fielded in near enough all of the games against other schools in the Angus area of the North-East of Scotland. In Fraser's final year at Primary School, Dunnottar won the B-League."

And after stepping up to senior football, Hobday continues his tale, with some wonderful humour. It included the following details:

At his first senior club, Parkvale FC: "Coming back into form, Fraser played eight games in total, impressing in all, but didn't pick up any clean sheets."

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Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' writes women into history

Web debate: Holly MacDonald (left) and Catherine Hickson at a workshop to amend Wikipedia. Photo: James Alcock

Like most students, Ira Ferris relies heavily on the internet for research. But when she turns to Wikipedia, the free, open-source internet encyclopaedia, the 31-year-old art student finds gaps.

Gaps in the information available about female artists, particularly Australian ones.

"I often find it difficult when I want to write an essay about a female artist to find enough about her online," she says.

Writing women into Wiki history: Ira Ferris (left) and Slyvia Griffin (far right) make entries and amendments to Wikipedia. Photo: James Alcock

"Women are not represented as they should be, especially artists."

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On Sunday, Ferris took part in an "edit-a-thon" hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art, where volunteers gathered to edit and expand the paucity of Wiki pages on Australian female artists.

The scarcity of information in this area is reflective of a wider gender bias for which Wikipedia has long been criticised, says Diana Smith, a female artist and member of the Brown Council, a women's art collective.

"In 2010 there was a report produced that looked at the stats on Wiki's gender distribution. It found that between nine to 13 per cent of Wikipedia editors were women," she says.

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Women and Wikipedia

Web debate: Holly MacDonald (left) and Catherine Hickson at a workshop to amend Wikipedia. Photo: James Alcock

Like most students, Ira Ferris relies heavily on the internet for research. But when she turns to Wikipedia, the free, open-source internet encyclopaedia, the 31-year-old art student finds gaps.

Gaps in the information available about female artists, particularly Australian ones.

"I often find it difficult when I want to write an essay about a female artist to find enough about her online," she says.

Writing women into Wiki history: Ira Ferris (left) and Slyvia Griffin (far right) make entries and amendments to Wikipedia. Photo: James Alcock

"Women are not represented as they should be, especially artists."

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On Sunday, Ferris took part in an "edit-a-thon" hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art, where volunteers gathered to edit and expand the paucity of Wiki pages on Australian female artists.

The scarcity of information in this area is reflective of a wider gender bias for which Wikipedia has long been criticised, says Diana Smith, a female artist and member of the Brown Council, a women's art collective.

"In 2010 there was a report produced that looked at the stats on Wiki's gender distribution. It found that between nine to 13 per cent of Wikipedia editors were women," she says.

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Wikipedia Editathon – Video


Wikipedia Editathon
As Opentober continues, a Wikipedia Editathon was held in the library to promote Open Access Week. Open Access Week promotes the use of sources online withou...

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Fun Video#1 | Spa mit meinem IPad und Wikipedia! – Video


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