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The Wikimedia Foundation has been asked by its board to overhaul its safety and compliance standards to better address harassment and incivility on Wikipedia and related Wikimedia communities.

The foundation oversees Wikipedia as well as its sister projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource, among others. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted last week to update safety standards across the brands, with the foundation sharing details of how it plans to clean up behavior that the board characterized as contrary to our shared values and detrimental to our vision and mission.

In a statement on the foundations culture and that of its respective properties, the board made it clear that more can and should be done to create safer and more inclusive spaces.

The Board does not believe we have made enough progress toward creating welcoming, inclusive, harassment-free spaces in which people can contribute productively and debate constructively, the board said. In recognition of the urgency of these issues, the Board is directing the Wikimedia Foundation to directly improve the situation in collaboration with our communities. This should include developing sustainable practices and tools that eliminate harassment, toxicity, and incivility, promote inclusivity, cultivate respectful discourse, reduce harms to participants, protect the projects from disinformation and bad actors, and promote trust in our projects.

The board has now tasked the foundation with overhauling any toxic behavior within the Wikimedia communities, including by taking action against users who do not comply with the new rules; working with site mods to develop retroactive review processes; developing a code of conduct applicable to all Wikimedia communities; and develop procedures for prioritizing the health of the individuals who run the various sites. While the board did not cite any one particular incident as an impetus for the change, it did say its statement formalizes years of longstanding efforts to curb abuse in its communities.

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The board said the foundation will work with appropriate partners from across the movement on its new goals for its communities, and further encouraged every member of the Wikimedia communities to collaborate in a way that models the Wikimedia values of openness and inclusivity.

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New York rapper Camron is ready to light a fire on all of Wikipedias digital pages. The hip-hop veteran went online this week to target the online encyclopedia for its perception of where his expression No homo originated.

On Friday, Camron jumped on Instagram to troll on Wikipedia. Cam appeared to have his own take on where the catchphrase started.

So No Homo (no offense to homosexuality) has a Wiki? And this is where they saying it started?! Smh #georgefloydstill is the focus -Camrons Instagram

In the mid-2000s, Cam explained why he used the expression No homo in his everyday talk. Killa also made sure to say the phrase wasnt about letting people know his sexuality.

With me, No homo is just installed in my vocabulary. Its like even if Im in a meeting, Ill be with my lawyer and say something like No homo and my lawyer be like looking at me and Im like, I know you have know idea what Im talking about but I need to say that because I said something real homo, no homo. [Am I gay?] Not at all, far from it. It isnt about being gay. Its about saying something gay. For instance, my man Jim Jones said Ima beat you with that til all the white stuff come out of it. Thats wild homo. Telling somebody else that. No homo, he didnt tell me that. You understand what I mean? This isnt even about being gay, its about saying something this is about saying gay things by accident. No homo. This isnt about being gay. (Hot 97)

A few years back, Cam flipped the expression into an actual song. The rap heavyweight released his Silky (No Homo) record to the masses.

Back in 2009, Cam let loose the truth behind where the expression stemmed from. He also applauded longtime pal Lil Wayne for keeping the catchphrase going at the time.

A friend of mine, son, hes like three or four, hes like, Lil Wayne made up No homo but those kids, younger kids are getting into it, too I think Wayne just took it and crossed over with it. Thats my man. He can use it anytime he wants. I heard people messed with using it in songs. I think Lil Wayne crossed it over. I didnt originate that. Its from the East side of Harlem. I learned that from Jeffersons Projects on 115th and 1st. Theyre the originators of No homo. East side of Harlem. First time I heard that phrase, 1990, 1991. Its a 20-year old phrase. (HHDX)

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Attempts to call Jose Calida 'Joe' and 'Demonyo' on Wikipedia do not pass muster against established Wikipedia editors

Published 3:05 PM, May 08, 2020

Updated 3:40 PM, May 08, 2020

Attempts to make alterations to the Wikipedia page of Solicitor General Jose Calida appeared to fail this week, following his successful push to have the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) order media giant ABS-CBN to cease operations. Lawmakers, media, and ordinary citizens alike have called the network's closure unconstitutional and an attack on press freedom.

The Wikipedia edit history for Jose Calida's page points to attempts to add a nickname to his profile there.

At least 3 different IP addresses were used to try to make anonymous mobile edits pertaining to Calida's nickname.

On May 5, attempts were made to add "Joe" to his name, but these were reverted, also by what appears to be a separate anonymous mobile edit

On May 6 and 7, attempts were then made to call him Jose "Demonyo" (Demon) Calida instead.

DEFACEMENT ATTEMPT. Wikipedia defacers try to nickname Jose Calida as 'Demonyo.' Screenshot from Wikipedia edit history.

However, these attempts were also quickly reverted by editors named Jollibinay and PlumeKnight. Plumeknight wrote down with the most recent edit on the history that "a derogatory word is added to the name of this government official."

Jose Calida's Wikipedia page is currently nickname-free as of May 8 Rappler.com.

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Screenshot: Catch Me If You Can, based on the life of Frank Abagnale (YouTube)Wiki WormholeWe explore some of Wikipedias oddities in our 5,664,405-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

We explore some of Wikipedias oddities in our 6,070,641-week series, Wiki Wormhole.

This weeks entry: List of Impostors

What its about: From Mrs. Doubtfire to Don Draper to Nicolas Cage in Face/Off, pop culture is full of people who are not what they seem. Disconcertingly, there are also a lot of real-life Armin Tamzarians out there, pretending to be someone theyre not.

Biggest controversy: At least in the 21st century, the most controversial impostors are ones who lie about their ethnicity. From Rachel Dolezal, the misguided white lady who ran a branch of the NAACP while claiming to be black, to Iron Eyes Cody, the crying Native American in the famous anti-littering ads of the 1970s, who turned out to be Italian-American. Other fake Native Americans include Grey Owl (Englishman Archibald Belaney); The Education Of Little Tree author Asa Earl Carter; Cherokee writer Jamake Highwater (actually Jewish journalist Jackie Marks); and Red Thunder Cloud (born Cromwell West, a black man who falsely claimed to be Catawba, but genuinely learned the Catawba language and was its last fluent speaker). There was also Helen Darville, who drew on nonexistent Ukrainian heritage for her novel The Hand That Signed The Paper, about a Ukrainian family that collaborates with the Nazis. (She was in fact Australian.)

Strangest fact: Theres a whole separate category on papal impostors. Antipopes were rival claimants to the Holy See, usually with the support of some faction within the Church, or of either the Roman or Byzantine Emperor. One of the earliest antipopes, Hippolytus, held that distinction for nearly 18 years in the early 200s, opposing the reign of three separate legitimate popes, and was later canonized. Clement III had the support of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, and as such was antipope for over 20 years, concurrent with four different popes in Rome. However, some antipopes reigns were as short as one day. In 1124, Celestine II won a contested papal election, but violence broke out during his investment ceremony, and he resigned before officially being enthroned to avoid further violence, thus setting a record for shortest papacy at negative several hours.

Thing we were happiest to learn: If youre a fan of royal impostors, Russias got you covered. Nicholas II Romanov, the last Tsar, abdicated during the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and was killed the following year, along with his wife and five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei. But some Russians refused to believe the children were dead, and a wave of impostors cropped up to confirm those beliefs. Marga Boodts claimed to be Olga; Maddess Aiort and Michelle Anches both claimed to be Tatiana; Granny Alina claimed to be Maria; Heino Tammet and CIA agent Michael Goleniewski both claimed to be Alexei; and Anna Anderson not only claimed to be Anastasia, she tried to prove it in court, in a legal battle that ran all the way until 1970, when a judge finally decided she hadnt presented enough evidence. (Long after her death in 1984, DNA evidence proved she wasnt related to the Romanovs.) Anatoly Ionov claimed to be Anastasias son (conceived after she escaped execution and went into hiding, naturally). And Larissa Tudor made no claims whatsoever, but looked so much like Tatiana that rumors dogged her throughout her whole life that she was in fact the Tsarina under an assumed name.

Another fake Anastasia surfaced as recently as 1990. Then-90-year-old Natalya Bilikhodze claimed to be the Grand Duchess, in hiding for 70 years, and at age 100, traveled to Russia to lay claim to the Romanov fortune, which almost certainly no longer existed.

There was also epan Mali (Stephen The Little), who pretended to be Peter III, who was Tsar for six months in 1762 before his untimely death. Mali turned up five years later in Montenegro, claiming to be Peter, and his claim was so good he ended up ruling Montenegro until his death in 1773.

Weve also previously covered not one, but three False Dmitrys, who each pretended to be the son of Ivan The Terrible over the span of a dozen years, each with some amount of short-term success.

Thing we were unhappiest to learn: People are apparently pretty easily fooled. Moviegoers know of scam artists like Frank Abagnale and David Hampton, whose stories were told in Catch Me If You Can and Six Degrees Of Separation, respectively. But theyre just part of a larger tradition of con men (and women) pretending to be someone else for personal gain. Michael The Great Impostor Sabo had over 100 known aliases in the FBI database. Cassie Chadwick passed herself off as the daughter of Andrew Carnegie. Gerald Barnbaum stole a doctors identity and used it for 20 years. And James Reavis used his real name, but created a complex, fictitious history, to back up his claim as the rightful owner of Arizona.

Also noteworthy: Theres also an unfortunate category of military impostors, who lied about their service. Former Fox News analyst Joseph A. Cafasso dined out on his experiences with Special Forces during the Vietnam War, which turned out to be entirely fabricatedhe served in the Army for just 44 days in 1976. Likewise, historian Joseph Ellis claimed to have served in Vietnam; he in fact taught at West Point during the war. British historian Jack Livesey claimed 20 years of service with the Parachute Regiment; he had at least served in the army, but only for three years, as a cook. And Erich von Stroheim, whose Hollywood career stretched from D.W. Griffiths 1912 film An Unseen Enemy, to directing a string of films in the 20s including Foolish Wives, Greed, The Merry Widow, to a supporting role in 1950s Sunset Boulevard, claimed to be an Austrian aristocrat who had served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In fact, he was the lower-middle-class son of a hatmaker and a lifelong civilian.

Best link to elsewhere on Wikipedia: Related to the impostor is the charlatan, who claims not to be someone else, but to have some area of expertise (usually medical) that they do not in fact possess. Notable charlatans Wikipedia mentions include Bernie Madoff, who ran an $18 billion Ponzi scheme; Charles Ponzi, inventor of said scheme; anti-vaxxer Joseph Mercola; and Grigori Rasputin, because this list just cant stay away from the Romanovs.

Further Down the Wormhole: That Fox News analyst may not have been in the Special Forces, but if he had, he may have been involved in an invasion of Americas most recurring enemy: The Peoples Republic of Pineland. Well look at repeated invasions of this fictional country in central North Carolina next week. Stay safe, everybody!

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