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Claire Murray, Alice White and Jess Wade, Imperial College London, are concerned about the underrepresentation of women on Wikipedia. They explain how they are working to change this, one wikithon at a time.

In a world where we rely on technology to feed facts to our fingertips, we assume that the terabytes of information online is up-to-date, unbiased and accurate.

Only 20 years ago, all of this information would have been deep within encyclopaedias, stored safely on the shelves of libraries, carefully consulted for clarification. In 2017, we instead assume that everyone of importance has, at the very minimum, a biography on Wikipedia.

But wait just a minute right there! Profiling English-language Wikipedia reveals that only 17% of the biography articles pages are for women. And this 17% is a big improvement on the 14% only six years ago. To quote a world leader: "SAD!" There are clearly heaps of notable women without Wikipedia representation across all disciplines, before we even start to think about women in chemistry.

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Hanan Ben Ari is an Israeli music superstar. Born in the religious village of Karnei Shomron and having studied in several Religious Zionist yeshivas, he still managed to become a crossover hit among Israel's secular public.

Ben Ari cemented his position in the Israeli music scene this past year, when one of his songs, 'Tutim' (strawberries) was named song of the year in the Israeli annual Hebrew song chart which aired on Army Radio.

Ben Ari's latest single 'Wikipedia' caused a storm among the religious public when it was recently released. In the song, he begs the public not to look at him as a representative of the larger religious community, and implores the public not to believe in stereotypes.

"Erase everything you knew about me up to this point," Ben Ari sings. "No, I am not a settler, not a representative of God, not someone who segregates women, not a bridge between the societal sectors."

The song caused a storm in the religious community. Many thought that Ben Ari was trying to hide his affiliation with the Religious Zionist community, criticism that he rebuffed.

"Stop putting people in a cage and saying, 'He's religious, he makes music for the religious and he does music that deals only with religious issues," Ben Ari said.

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MSNBC host Al Sharpton is calling for ending federal funding for maintenance and security for the Jefferson Memorial because the third U.S. president owned slaves.

When you look at the fact thatpublic monuments are supported by public funds youre asking me to subsidize the insult of my family.I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who has had that kind of background, Sharpton told CBS host Charlie Rose.

You have private museums, you have other things that you may want to do there, he added.

The Jefferson Memorial is a large structure on the banks of the Potomac river, sitting on federal grounds.

Jefferson had slaves and children with his slaves. And it does matter, Sharpton continued.

I think that people need to understand when people that were enslaved and robbed of even the right to marry, and had forced sex with their slave masters, this is personal to us.

This is personal, Sharpton exclaimed. This is not some kind of removed discussion from us, our families were victims of this. Certainly they ought to be removed.

Rose began to pose, Therefore everybody associated with slavery in terms of a public monument to them, before Sharpton

When you look at the fact that public monuments are supported with public funds, you are asking me to subsidize the insult to my family.

Then I repeat, Thomas Jefferson had slaves, Rose injected.

Sharpton replied, And I would repeat that the public should not be paying to uphold somebody who has that kind of background. You have private museums, you have other things that you may want to do there.

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