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What does this mean for the worlds accumulated knowledge?

For more than 20 years now, people can look up online answers to all manner of questions. With some 50 million articles in almost 300 languages, Wikipedia would appear to be a treasure trove of knowledge. Anyone can contribute. But little is known about the individual creators of this enormous pool of information. What motivates them to devote unpaid time in the service of human knowledge?

And what happens if the collective is infiltrated by contributors with a hidden agenda in the pay of nations or industry giants? Why is 85% of the content provided by whats become known as stereotypical "angry white men contributing content that they consider relevant for the planet? And will artificial intelligence soon take over? This film provides a critical appraisal of the pros and cons of the online encyclopedia.

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Steven Pruitt, the Virginia resident who has made over 3 million edits on Wikipedia.

For every article that you read on Wikipedia, there is a writer and an editor. A towering figure among them is Steven Pruitt, the Virginia resident who has made over three million edits on the "free encyclopedia".

Mr Pruitt made the news back in 2017 when TimeMagazine named him one of the 25 most influential people on the internet, alongside former US President Donald Trump, JK Rowling and Kim Kardashian. Since 2006, he has made over three million Wikipedia edits, more than any other English-language editor. He has personally also written hundreds of new articles on influential women in order to correct Wikipedia's gender imbalance and also strengthen the backbone of the platform itself.

Wikipedia is such an incredible tool because it makes so much information accessible to so many people at once, he told Time.

Mr Pruitt was named one of the most influential people on the internet in part because one-third of all English language articles in the online encyclopedia have been edited by him. He goes by the name Ser Amantio di Nicolao on Wikipedia, the name of his favourite Opera character. In an interview with CBS News, Mr Pruitt revealed that he is deeply obsessed with historyand his first article was about Peter Francisco, who was his great great great great great great grandfather.

Mr Pruitt's primary profession is at the US Customs Office, where he organises documents. However, in the evening, after completing his duties, he spends more than three hours a day researching, editing and writing for the online portal. He doesn't receive any compensation for his work, but he has remained true to his interests.

"The idea of making it all free fascinates me. My mother grew up in the Soviet Union... So I'm very conscious of that -what it can mean to make knowledge free, to make information free," he said.

Further, speaking to CBS News, Mr Pruitt revealed that the longest he has gone without editing Wikipedia is two or three weeks. In fact, WikiMedia's vice president of communications, Kui Kinyanjui, had also stated that the site would not exist without the dedication of its volunteers, especially Steven Pruitt.

We're very excited about projects like Women in Red, which seeks to identify and place more content on women on our platform... Steven has been a large contributor to that project," Kui Kinyanjui said.

Several of the other top 10 Wikipedia editors also agree that Mr Pruitt's contributions have been remarkable.He is notable not just for the sheer number of articles and edits he has contributed, but for what he chooses to highlight as well. For example, he learned that women were the subjects of just 15 per cent of biographical articles on the site, and worked to fix that imbalance by writing hundreds of articles about influential women.

To put into perspective what it took for Mr Pruitt to become the top editor, he has been dedicating his free time to the site for more than 13 years now.

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Squaring up to the prospect of a new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, Im reminded of a vintage quote by Nick Cave: Im forever near a stereo saying, What is this garbage? And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I can empathise. I dont habitually harbour animus against artists I dislike, but something about the sheer scale of the Red Hot Chili Peppers awfulness has always felt weirdly personal.

Despite the kind of success that looks mightily impressive in a Wikipedia stat dump 100 million record sales, multiple Grammy wins, numerous number ones the Californian rock band have always been tricky to tolerate, let alone love. The reasons for this are manifold. Their grimly juvenile take on sexual relations envelops their music in a cloud of toxic testosterone. One song is called Hump de Bump, another Party on Your Pussy. They have an album titled The Uplift Mofo Party Plan. They became notorious for wearing sports socks over their genitals and depicting Californian frat-boy shenanigans with all the reverence of Homer contemplating the Elysian Plains. When they on occasion turn their attention to matters of spirituality, the lyrical wisdom has the depth and nuance of an Insta meme.

The music? The music is an ugly Frankensteins monster constructed from all the least likeable, least groovy bits of rock, funk, psychedelia and hip hop, with an added patina of plain stupidity. Singer Anthony Kiedis radiates the kind of braggadocious bro vibes that, aurally speaking, make me want to cross the road for my own safety. Kiedis writes terrible lyrics, flatlining melodies and has a horrible shouty voice. It goes without saying that he possesses the kind of swaggering confidence inversely proportional to all these impediments. Do the sums and you could reasonably claim that Red Hot Chili Peppers have waged a 40-year campaign of brute bone-headed idiocy upon the world and yet somehow emerged triumphant.

I have been a little luckier than Cave of late. Since the 1990s, when the three albums on which the bands success rests Blood Sugar Sex Magik; One Hot Minute; Californication were ubiquitous, Ive managed to more or less avoid their music. A reckoning is long overdue. Its time to stress test my prejudices, and what better way than by listening to their new record, Unlimited Love. Produced by long-term enabler Rick Rubin, this is the bands first album since 2016, and their first with original guitarist John Frusciante for almost 20 years.

Per the title, Red Hot Chili Peppers are blessing us with 17 new songs almost 75 minutes of music. This is, by some degree, too much love. The worst and sadly most prevalent kind of Red Hot Chili Peppers song is a doggedly unmelodic, squelchy faux-funk thing garnished with a half-rapped torrent of vaguely unseemly doggerel. There are several examples of this form on Unlimited Love Shes a Lover; Whatchu Thinkin; One Way Traffic; Let Em Cry but we shall let Poster Child speak for all of them. Imagine Billy Joels We Didnt Start the Fire if Joel had been more interested in the Thompson Twins and Caddyshack than Belgians in the Congo. Its very bad indeed.

Other diversions are simply bizarre. On the plodding, phased folk-rock pastiche Black Summer, Kiediss absurd vocal appears to be a misguided tribute to a West Country pirate. Its a song with an acute identity crisis: it thinks it is Stairway to Heaven, which is bad enough, when it is actually Spinal Tap fronted by Edward Teach.

Mercifully, Red Hot Chili Peppers have a secret weapon. Bass player Flea is a world-class musician who over the years has negotiated a series of day-release deals in order to play with grown-ups such as Thom Yorke. His contributions dominate the best songs here. The slippery groove of Its Only Natural is genuinely terrific. The pretty The Great Apes reminds me of early REM, off-time and slightly odd. Aquatic Mouth Dance is a rhythmically interesting blend of lounge funk and blaring soul, marred only by Kiediss contribution, which can be likened to a toddler scrawling on the walls.

One other positive. Though it is far too long, sonically this isnt a fussy or overcooked record. The production is clean and punchy for the most part, and Frusciante is a powerfully succinct player, only really letting his indulgences fly on The Heavy Wing. What else? Theres a ballad that sounds like a 1980s Elton John cast-off, and an acoustic waltz called Tangelo. More than enough to conclude that Caves putdown isnt entirely fair, but its not exactly wrong, either.

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The awfulness of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has always felt weirdly personal - The Spectator

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HONG KONG, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --In recent years, the rapid development of new technologies has led to the elimination of many existing careers. At the same time, many new opportunities have arisen, including starting a business based on the Internet, online marketing, and software development, among others. Many an entrepreneur would like to take advantage of rapidly developing technologies and learn a skill to create more value for themselves and for society.

The Mustache Technology is a programming education company based in Hong Kong. Since 2015, the company has trained over 1,100 students in Hong Kong, helping them build the skills, develop the mindset, and gain the work experience needed in the digital era.

Through training, real-world projects, student exchanges, and career coaching, The Mustache Technology provides a one-stop preparation site for newcomers who want to embark on a second career in the field of technology. Courses include full-end web development, introductory app development, data science, SEO organic traffic marketing, and more.

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The transition to online teaching led to The Mustache Technology signing on many students from outside Hong Kong, including Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, and Europe. Its student base has become more diversified.

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