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WikiTrivia is a deceptively simple game that has consumed my entire morning. Wordle is fun, but its over quickly. WikiTrivia you can play over and over again. Players sort random events in history along a timeline. When the game opens, you have one event and youre asked to place another either before or after the first event occurred. Did Philip the Apostle die before or after the sitcom New Girl completed its run?

WikiTrivia starts easy, but as the game goes on the dates get tighter and things get harder. Its also punishingly random. I had one game that asked me to order the start date of three game consoles before plunging into the depths of history. How was I to know that the Mughal Empire was founded after the founding of the Stavnger municipality in Norway?

The game lets you make three mistakes before it ends. It also keeps track of your best streaks. My current streak is 12. Both of my editors have streaks of 13. This eats at my guts and forces me to play another round after every sentence I type, yearning to beat them at the game before I publish this blog. I just lost another game because I didnt know that journalist Theodor Herzl was born after the publishing of The Lady of Shalott but before the birth of Javier Bardem.

This game also eats your time by sending you down Wikipedia rabbit holes. It generates each game pulling data from Wikipedia and Wikidata, so every entry has an attendant article you can dive into. I just learned a little about Constantine XI Palaigos, the last reigning Byzantine Empire thanks to WikiTrivia.

WikiTrivia is rough around the edges. In one of my games, it dated the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire as occurring in year 1. In another game, a colleague was told that the Puma clothing brand was founded in the year 0. Sometimes pictures or factoids dont load. The game is the work of software engineer Tom James Watson, and he keeps track of the game's various bugs on a Github page. Hes slowly working through them, always improving it.

As Watson seeks to refine and improve WikiTrivia, I too seek to improve my streak. The small bugs dont stop me from playing it. Every time I tab over to the screen to pull a piece of information, find a link, or take a screenshot for this blog, I find myself playing another round. I'm convinced, if I try one more time, I can beat my bosses streaks.

Just one more game.

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NEWS | FEATURES | PREVIEWS | EVENTSoriginally published: 01/20/2022

(JERSEY CITY, NJ) -- In honor of Womens History Month, Art House Productions, along with Hudson County Community College, Seton Hall University, Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark, Rutgers University - Newark, and The Feminist Art Project, a program of the Rutgers Center for Women in the Arts and Humanities, will present Art+Feminism Art Talk and Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon on Wednesday, March 8 at 11:00am EST via Zoom.

Attendees of the 2022 Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon will learn how to edit and create Wikipedia pages for artists who are women, gender diverse, and/or people of color. Building on the work done since this program began in 2020, attendees will enrich and expand the presence of women in this widely read digital resource, which is also the foundation of many linked data projects. The goal of the workshop is to amplify the voices of artists and cultural workers who are often underrepresented in digital resources and in the arts. All are invited to register to become Wikipedians and edit or create a Wikipedia page for an artist.

According to the Art+Feminism website, the non-profit organization directly addresses the inequality of gender, feminism, and the arts on Wikipedia. This is accomplished through a coordinated campaign of online training materials and volunteer-organized edit-a-thons at a variety of cultural and intellectual institutions across the globe. Since 2014, over 18,000 people at more than 1,260 events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of more than 84,000 articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects.

"We are proud to partner again on this important virtual event supporting the worldwide movement to amplify gender diverse artists through Wikipedia," says Producing Director Courtney Little. "This is an incredible opportunity for community members to learn from each other and to enrich Wikipedia to include more voices and perspectives."

Free registration is available at: https://bit.Ly/3tE8bYq The event will feature closed captions autogenerated by Zoom. To request ASL interpreters, please email info@arthouseproductions.org at least 72 hours before the event.

Art House Productions was founded in late September 2001 by Christine Goodman, a community leader and professional performing artist. Art House began as an informal gathering of poets and community members in direct response to the tragedies of September 11th. At that time, there were no consistent performance venues for artists in Jersey City to meet one another and share new work. Art House's inaugural event sprung from the desire to connect a devastated community through art and dialogue.Since then, Art House has established itself as a pioneer of artistic and cultural programming in Hudson County.

In 2007, Art House became incorporated and was grantednonprofit 501(c)(3) status. In late 2007, the organization was presented with the Key to the City and an official Proclamation for its outstanding contributions to the City of Jersey City, NJ.

In 2021, Art House Productions merged with Jersey Art Exchange (JAX) to increase and enhance existing education programs.

In 2022, Art House Productions will move into a permanent home at 180 Morgan St in Jersey City, NJ. The development comes courtesy ofSilverman,The Albanese Group, andLiberty Harbor.The state-of-the-art facility will include a gallery, black box theater with dressing rooms, and administrative offices.

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A Strawberry iMac, APPLE COMPUTER INC., 2000. Jimmy Waless personal iMac used in the creation of Wikipedia.

In 2000, entrepreneur and bond trader Jimmy Wales founded Nupedia, an online encyclopedia for peer-reviewed articles written by experts. A year later, amid a slow trickle of sanctioned articles, he launched a supplementary open-source internet encyclopedia that used collaborative wiki software, and Wikipedia was born. In its two decades of existence, Wikipedia has attained an astonishing depth and breadth: the English Wikipedia alone one of over 300 Wikipedia language editions boasts over 6.4 million articles with more than 250 million page views a day.

This month, the genesis of our online collective memory was commemorated with a sale at Christies, in collaboration with Wales. Hosted where else? online, The Birth of Wikipedia sale took place from December 3 to 15 and offered up two lots: a 2000 strawberry iMac that Wales used to develop Wikipedia, and an NFT of the first Wikipedia edit, which was made by Wales on January 15, 2001, the day that the platform launched. The bidding on both items opened at a low $100. Wales iMac ultimately realized $187,500, while the NFT skyrocketed to $750,000.

Wales used the roseate personal computer for research and development in Wikipedias early days. As the Rubenesque desktop neared obsolescence, the device was relegated to the room of his young daughter, who used it to play video games, a statement from Christies said. An auction house representative told Hyperallergic that the computer is still functional, but it is quite an old computer, and you can expect it to behave like so. It comes with the original box.

In the NFT on offer, the first edit to Wikipedia in which Wales typed, Hello, World!, a classic programming reference is embedded in a recreation of the sites original homepage from 2001. Structurally echoing a Wikipedia page, an interactive feature allows the buyer to grant anyone editing access to the NFT. A timer function resets the page to its original form after set intervals.

Its been over twenty years since I first typed in the words Hello, World! to launch Wikipedia and even today, Im still amazed at the size and breadth of what it has become, said Wales in a statement.

Wales, who found himself disappointed with Facebook and Twitter, launched the alternative nontoxic social network WT.Social in October 2019; a portion of the proceeds from the auction will go toward the advertisement-free platform, which runs on donations. Some of the funds will also be directed toward charities working in the free culture world, a statement from Christies said.

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In recent years, we've seen no shortage of terrifying wildlife on a golf course. Gators. Snakes. Bobcats. Bears. More gators. More snakes. You get the point, it's a dangerous world out there, even when you're just trying to get in 18 holes. What we didn't expect, however, is that a crab might be scarier than all these other animals.

That's right, a crab. Although, as you can imagine, the crab we're about to show you isn't exactly any crab. It's a robber or coconut crab, and according to Wikipedia, it's "the the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world, with a weight of up to 4.1 kg."

"Robber" is a fitting term because it wound up snapping one golfer's driver in the following, horrifying clip that was captured by a group of guys playing on Christmas Island, which according to Wikipedia is "an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean." (By the way, we're glad Wikipedia is still around in 2022. Happy New Year, Wikipedia.)

OK, here's the clip of this giant thing wreaking havoc on someone's golf bag that was shared by 9News Australia:

CRIKEY! Those claws. Those teeth. Tough break to lose a driver, but that's certainly better than losing an appendage. That crab is not messing around. Wow.

Anyway, to to our fellow golfers, stay safe out there this year. And watch out for crabs.

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Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Datuk Seri Rina Mohd Harun has come under fire for what some see as her lackluster performance thus far, specially during the recent floods.

As a result, netizens have gone one step further to show their displeasure online, changing her Wikipedia page to contain insults.

Her name on Wikipedia was changed continuously over the past few days, ranging from explicit slurs to references to her love for water jets.

This refers to when she came under fire for using a water jet to wash an already clean corridor at a flood relief center while surrounded by photographers.

Netizens criticised the act as she was not actually providing real aid to flood victims, and instead merely posed for photographs.

However, when Rina Haruns name on Wikipedia was changed to include insults, many more netizens came forward to call out such behaviour as cyberbullying.

Despite the peoples anger towards her performance as a minister, Malaysians are also putting their foot down on blatant cyberbullying of a public figure.

This is not our style. We are better than this. We are way above this [behaviour], writes one netizen.

As of the time of writing, Rina Haruns Wikipedia page has reverted to normal.

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