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October 27, 2014

by Thomas Fuller@www.nytimes.com

When he organized a get-together for dog lovers and their canine-averse neighbors, Syed Azmi Alhabshi thought he was doing a public service.

But after hundreds of people showed up to the event, billed as I Want to Touch a Dog on Facebook, and when pictures started circulating on the Internet of Muslim women in head scarves happily hugging dogs, Mr. Syed Azmi became an unwitting protagonist in the latest chapter of Malaysias culture wars.

In the week since the event, Mr. Syed Azmi, a pharmacist, has received more than 3,000 messages on his phone, many of them hateful and a dozen of them threatening physical harm. The police advised him to stay at home.

Malaysias Muslim leaders, who cite Islamic scriptures stating that dogs are unclean, lashed out at him in the news media. I feel the anger, and it is real, he said in an interview.

Over the past two weeks, Muslim leaders in Malaysia have denounced Halloween as a planned attack on Islam and Oktoberfest parties as a public vice the same as mass-promoted adultery.

The culture wars have waxed and waned in multicultural Malaysia in recent years as conservative Muslim groups have pushed back against what they describe as libidinous and ungodly Western influences in a country that has rapidly modernized and become more cosmopolitan.

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Goalkeeper Fraser Hobday asked sister to post 3,271-word Wikipedia entry 19-year-old plays for Huntly FC rooted to bottom of Scottish semi-pro league Wikipedia entry is only slightly smaller than one describing Gary Lineker's entire career Biography, which includes a rundown of his school career, went viral online Said he used entry as online CV and admits he has been teased by friends Wikipedia has suspended the entry because it does not match its guidelines for entries on footballers

By Julian Robinson for MailOnline

Published: 12:21 EST, 28 October 2014 | Updated: 12:59 EST, 28 October 2014

Fraser Hobday, pictured, asked his sister to post his entire career and life story online - right from his early days at primary school.

A footballer playing for a team languishing at the bottom of a Scottish semi-professional league scored an own goal - by giving himself a Wikipedia entry almost as big as Gary Lineker's.

Cafe worker Fraser Hobday keeps goal for lowly Huntly FC who are currently bottom of their division with a goal difference of minus 33.

But despite his modest achievements the 19-year-old asked his sister to post a rundown of his career and life story online - right from his early days at primary school.

The trainee chef's 3,271-word biography tells how he failed to keep any clean sheets at his first senior club.

He then describes how he faced the pressure of a penalty in his first big game for Huntly FC, who play in the Scottish Highland League - and let in the goal.

The career of football legend and Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker - England's second highest goal scorer - is described on Wikipedia in just 600 more words.

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Slubice, Poland, now hosts a monument honoring contributors to the free online encyclopedia. If you can't go see it for yourself, you can read all about it on Wikipedia.

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If you plan to visit Slubice, Poland, you might want to read about the place on Wikipedia first. Then you might consider showing your appreciation for the info by visiting the new Wikipedia monument there. Yes, Slubice is now home to the first-ever Wikipedia monument, according to (who else?) Wikipedia.

The fiberglass and resin monument, designed by Armenian sculptor Mihran Hakobyan, depicts the iconic Wikipedia puzzle-piece-globe held aloft by four humans. As with the iconic globe seen online, missing pieces represent the ever-expanding realm of human knowledge. The sculpture, which measures 5.5 feet inches by 2 feet by 2 feet, was unveiled last week in the city's Frankfurt Square.

Krzysztof Wojciechowski, director of the academic institution Collegium Polonicum, which the artist attended, came up with the idea for a monument honoring Wikipedia's contributors.

"I'm ready to drop to my knees before Wikipedia, that's why I thought of a monument where I could do it." Wojciechowski said.

Indeed, in its inscription, the sculpture expresses great appreciation for the many volunteers who have kept Wikipedia bursting with information on virtually every subject since its founding 14 years ago.

"With this monument the citizens of Subice would like to pay homage to thousands of anonymous editors all over the world, who have contributed voluntarily to the creation of Wikipedia, the greatest project co-created by people regardless of political, religious or cultural borders," the inscription reads. "In the year this monument is unveiled Wikipedia is available in more than 280 languages and contains about 30 million articles. The benefactors behind this monument feel certain that with Wikipedia as one of its pillars the knowledge society will be able to contribute to the sustainable development of our civilization, social justice and peace among nations."

The widely used online compendium, of course, has faced charges of spotty reliability, especially in its earlier days. Last year, Wikipedia revealed that it banned hundreds of accounts as part of an investigation into "suspicious edits and sockpuppetry" that promoted organizations or products. It has since instituted new terms of use that require volunteer editors to disclose whether they have been compensated for their contributions.

The town of Slubice funded the structure, which cost 67,000 zloty ($27,000, 21,263), according to the Collegium Polonicum.

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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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