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Recording artists Benjamin (Benji) Madden (L) and Joel Madden

Recording artists Benjamin (Benji) Madden (L) and Joel Madden

Scarlett Johansson and her twin brother Hunter Johansson who appeared with her in the film 'Manny & Lo.' Source: Wikipedia

Scarlett Johansson and her twin brother Hunter Johansson who appeared with her in the film 'Manny & Lo.' Source: Wikipedia

Giovanni and Marissa Ribisi

Giovanni and Marissa Ribisi

Actresses Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley

Actresses Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley

Ashton has a fraternal twin brother named Michael,

Ashton has a fraternal twin brother named Michael,

Michael Kutcher

Michael Kutcher

Parker and Chris Posey -Parker is an American actress best known as the "Queen of the Indies." Source: Wikipedia

Parker and Chris Posey -Parker is an American actress best known as the "Queen of the Indies." Source: Wikipedia

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen - The Olsens have also launched their own couture fashion label, "The Row," named after Savile Row in London. Source: Wikipedia

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen - The Olsens have also launched their own couture fashion label, "The Row," named after Savile Row in London. Source: Wikipedia

Linda & Leslie Hamilton - Her identical twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren was Linda's double in Terminator 2. Source: Wikipedia

Linda & Leslie Hamilton - Her identical twin sister Leslie Hamilton Gearren was Linda's double in Terminator 2. Source: Wikipedia

Judy Reyes (left) is an American television actress, her twin sister named Joselin, played a paramedic on Law & Order. Source: Wikipedia

Judy Reyes (left) is an American television actress, her twin sister named Joselin, played a paramedic on Law & Order. Source: Wikipedia

Identical twins Jon and Dan Heder grew up in a Mormon household in Utah and attended Brigham Young University. Source: Zimbio.com

Identical twins Jon and Dan Heder grew up in a Mormon household in Utah and attended Brigham Young University. Source: Zimbio.com

Jill and Jacqueline Hennessy worked together in a 1988 movie called Dead Ringers and one episode of Law & Order. Source: Zimbio.com

Jill and Jacqueline Hennessy worked together in a 1988 movie called Dead Ringers and one episode of Law & Order. Source: Zimbio.com

Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, the fraternal former first daughters.

Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush, the fraternal former first daughters.

Ingrid and Isabella Rossellini are the daughters of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini,

Ingrid and Isabella Rossellini are the daughters of actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini,

George and Amal Clooney welcome twins Ella and Alexander

NEW YORK (AP) George and Amal Clooney's twins have arrived one of the most anticipated births since Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt were born in 2008.

Beyonce and Jay Z, you're next.

The Clooneys welcomed a son and a daughter on Tuesday morning, announcing in a joint statement that daughter Ella, son Alexander and mother Amal were all "happy, healthy and doing fine."

"George is sedated and should recover in a few days," the statement said.

Clooney, 56, and international human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, 39, married in Italy in 2014. These are the first children for both.

Other celebrity parents of twins include Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony and Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O'Connell.

Beyonce and Jay Z are also expecting twins imminently. She announced the pregnancy in February.

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I love Wikipedia. In the last decade-or-so Ive made thousands of edits to Wikipedia one some extremely niche subjects that are important to me. Well, there are few subjects more important to me than Hispanic diversity in American newsrooms. Thats why I started listing Latinas employed in mainstream U.S. newsrooms in the sandbox of a couple of collaborative Wikipedia accounts so that multiple users could add names as they came in from the various newsrooms.

That draft (or sandbox) has been removed from two accounts. Why?

Our list of Latinas in U.S. newsrooms wasnt even published yet. We were keeping it in whats called the Sandbox of a couple of Wikipedia accounts. The Sandbox is where you can work on draft Wikipedia pages, or so we thought...

Now, why is this important?

I suspect Latinas are the least-represented major workforce segment in U.S. American newsrooms...but to Wikipedia, thats beside the point. Wikipedia is not activism. That much is very clear in the rules of Wikipedia, which are clear about little else.

The problem here is Wikipedias double-standard. The editors have not only deleted our extensive list of U.S. Latinas working in mainstream newsrooms but theyve disabled the accounts where the lists were being compiled. Why? Whats different about listing Latinas working in newsrooms as opposed to other groups?

Weve tweeted at Wikipedia founder Jimmy Jimbo Wales and hope we can get this resolved. Like I said, I love Wikipedia, but this is pretty messed up. We want our list back, even if Wikipedia doesnt believe theres a place for it on their platform.

Let us know, Jimbo. Thank you, sir. Here are the latest posts in this series, for reference:

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These are certainly not the best of times for singer Dammy Krane who is still being held in a US prison after he was arrested on grounds of grand theft, credit card fraud and impersonation.

The development has somewhat forced a change his Wikipedia profile page which is now updated with his latest travails and arrest on the free digital encyclopaedia.

A quick check on the singers Wikepedia profile shows that a section tagged Arrest has been added to his main page which reads thus; On Friday 2nd June 2017, the Nigerian news circuit was set ablaze with surprising news that Dammy Krane had been arrested in the US for Grand Theft, Credit Card & Identity Fraud.

In the days that followed more details revealed that the talented Nigerian musician had used a stolen credit card to book a private jet from a company Tap Jets while on holiday in Miami.

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The company had detected the artistes fraud due to discrepancies in the credit card information he had provided. In the days leading to his arrest, the artist had shared a number of photos on Instagram which showed a lavish lifestyle and openly seemed to display wealth, the impute on the arrest section read in full.

Meanwhile, incoming reports suggests that Dammy Krane may spend close to 40-years in prison if convicted of the charges levelled against him especially with the fact that Tapjets, the company that owns the jet which was allegedly booked by the singer using the stolen credit cards, has vowed to press charges against the jailed singer whose bail is set at $22,500.

Anyone who uses someone elses personal identifying information to obtain property or anything of value worth more than $5,000 commits a second-degree felony according to the Florida State Credit Card Crime Act.

And anyone found guilty or convicted of a felony identity theft crime in Florida faces anywhere from a year to 40 years or more in prison according to the law.

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Wikimedia FoundationInternet providers should be able to experiment with giving subscribers free stuff, such as access to Wikipedia and other public information and services on their smartphones. Unfortunately, confusion about whether today's net neutrality regulations allow U.S. providers to make content available without it counting against your data plana practice called "zero-rating"has discouraged many companies from doing so, even though zero-rating experiments are presumptively legal under today's net neutrality regulations.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has already taken steps to clear away the discouragement of such experiments. After Ajit Pai took over as FCC chairman in January, he moved to end the investigations, begun under his predecessor, into companies that have tried to go down that path. And of course Chairman Pai also opened a rulemaking proceeding in April aimed at rolling back those rules, which invited and allowed the FCC's Wireline Bureau to start those investigations. But these steps alone haven't sent the kind of staunch, affirmative encouragement that's really needed.

The lack of clarity about zero-rating could change overnight, however, and it wouldn't require any new laws, any new regulations, any new quasi-formal inquiries from the commissionersor even the Pai's proposed rollback of the 2015 regulatory order. All it would take would be for Pai to call openly (in speeches or interviews, say, or other public appearances) and frequently for internet providers to experiment with adding zero-rated public information to their offerings.

Zero-rating experiments can be a win-win-win: Customers get access to more useful content for the same price; companies have more options for attracting users and expanding their business; and society at large benefits when greater numbers of people are exposed to valuable resources such as Wikipedia, public-health information, and other non-commercial apps and websites.

But the big fear among some net neutrality activists is that commercial zero-rating will favor well-heeled incumbents over lean new innovators. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) put it in 2016, "The most dangerous of these plans, such as the AT&T and Verizon offerings, only offer their users zero-rated data from content providers who pay the carriers money to do so. Such 'pay for play' arrangements favor big content providers who can afford to pay for access to users' eyeballs, and marginalize those who can't, such as nonprofits, startups, and fellow users." Even non-commercial zero-rated offerings may a problem, EFF argued. These include the risk of "distorting" content consumption in favor of already-popular non-subscription services (think Google's search engine or Facebook) or the "walled garden effect"i.e., that some price-sensitive customers may choose never to venture outside of the zero-rated services sponsored by the internet provider.

But what evidence we do have suggests that zero rating enables net new traffic, because people visit destinations that they would not otherwise. Roslyn Layton of Aalborg University has shown that at least 10 million people in developing countries use free data to access pregnancy and AIDS information.

The fact is, information sources like Wikipedia regularly drive traffic to the larger internet. A zero-rated, stripped-down, low-bandwidth version of the free online encyclopedia, called Wikipedia Zero, is already offered in dozens of developing countries around the world, which actually makes it easier to find relevant information and services on the non-zero-rated web. For instance, the Wikipedia entry for "Wikipedia Zero" includes links pointing users to both nonprofit sites and for-profit, advertising-supported sitesincluding many sources that are themselves critical of the Wikipedia Zero platform for being "inconsistent" with certain conceptions of network neutrality.

As I've written here before, I favor both net neutrality as a general principle, understood as an evolution of the common-carriage rules that have long governed telephone service and traditional mail as well as an evolution of the internet's history as an open platform that anybody can provide new content or services for. But I've also written in favor of a zero-rating as a tool (though hardly the only one) that I believe could help bring the rest of the world online in my lifetime.

I can hold both positions because I reject the prevalent view that "net neutrality" means internet providers have to treat different types of web content absolutely identicallyespecially if it stops someone from giving free but limited web access to those who wouldn't otherwise have internet access at alland who could learn about the larger internet through the external links embedded in free, open resources like Wikipedia.

The digital divide isn't just a global problem. It's also an issue much closer to home: Pew Research Center data indicate that Americans who rely on their mobile devices for their sole or primary source of internet access are disproportionately from the lowest income groups. Pew identifies a broad group of Americans (about 15 percent) as "smartphone dependent," and concluded in a comprehensive 2015 paper that "even as a substantial minority of Americans indicate that their phone plays a central role in their ability to access digital services and online content, for many users this access is often intermittent due to a combination of financial stresses and technical constraints."

Editing or otherwise contributing to Wikipedia may crowd your data cap, because if you write or edit an entry, you typically have to reload (and maybe keep reloading) it to see how the changes look. This can require two or more orders of magnitude more bandwidth than just consulting Wikipedia does. But Wikipedia as an informational resource depends on ongoing contributions from everyonenot just users who can afford to pay for "unlimited" data.

The best-case scenario is a world in which every American is motivated to take advantage of the internet, in which we all have access to the whole internet, and in which internet providers can afford to offer that level of service to everyone. The best way to get to that point in a hurry, though, is to get more people online and sampling what the web has to offer. Encouraging non-commercial services like Wikipedia Zero and Facebook's Free Basics can help make that happen.

Pai and, ideally, other commissioners should come out strongly and expresslyvia speeches and other non-regulatory forums, including responses to press inquiriesin favor of internet providers offering zero-rated services, especially those that aren't pay-for-play. Repeatedly sending the right message can do as much as deregulation to encourage innovation of this sort.

I'd also want the commissioners to urge U.S. internet providers to share their data about whether zero-rated services improve internet adoption, both among smartphone-only users and in general. With more information, the FCC can make more informed decisions going forward about what kinds of open-internet regulations to adoptor to remove.

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Katherine Maher, executive director of Wikimedia: "Access to information is a human right."

Katherine Maher thinks knowledge is formed like a beautiful diamond.

A tremendous amount of pressure creates a really crystalline thing, says the director of the foundation responsible for Wikipedia, the worlds largest encyclopaedia.

As fake news proliferates and the public tires from information overload, Maher sees crowd-sourced knowledge where readers discuss, debate and edit Wikipedias articles to reach a consensus as the antidote to alternative facts.

The more people you have debating the intricacies and nuances of a particular adjective or turn of phrase, the more likely you are going to get to a place where everyone can agree what constitutes a neutral perspective on an issue.

Founded in 2001 by US entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia comprises more than 400 million articles edited by more than 200,000 volunteer Wikimedians around the world. Ninety per cent of its budget comes from very small donations. In 2003 the Wikimedia Foundation was created to steward the encyclopaedia, and now employs 300 people based in San Francisco.

Maher joined the foundation as chief communications officer in 2014, after working in technology and advocacy at the World Bank, UNICEF and the National Democratic Institute.

She was appointed executive director in 2016 after her predecessor unexpectedly resigned over leaked documents showing Wikipedia was set to build a search engine. This outraged Wikimedians, who believed it wasnt part of the organisations scope.

Its no surprise then, considering the lofty ideals of the Wikipedia community and Mahers background in advocacy, that she sees her role as resisting the domination of tech giants such as Google, Apple or Facebook, and championing global free knowledge.

Global, but not everywhere. Since April, Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey because of two articles alleging links between the Turkish government and Islamist militant groups. Maher said such blocks are rare, primarily in places where the internet is restricted such as North Korea and China. Access to information is a human right, she says. Neutral, unbiased, verifiable knowledge is important.

However, Maher says they are not in the business of adjudicating disputes, and admits Wikipedias open-platform model where anyone can edit isnt perfect.

There is a lot of back-and-forth about controversial issues such as politics, but that doesnt mean the Wikipedia community doesnt have a sense of humour. Notable hoaxes include fictitious presidents of the World Bank, non-existent senate candidates and bogus Natalia Imbruglia albums.

The US Congress was temporarily blocked when it was discovered several vandal edits were coming from the government. They were saying all sorts of nasty things about all sorts of people. We can only assume it was the interns calling politicians aliens and wizards, she says.

Maher is in the midst of figuring out whats next for the foundation. Wales is taking on fake news by launching his own media outlet, Wikitribune, but Maher sees technology and diversity as the focus for Wikipedia. Only 16 per cent of its biographies are about women and the English-language edition dominates.

Maher hints at having one eye on the future of the internet as technology advances, and evolving Wikipedias search queries.

It shouldnt be just about reading information or consuming information, it should be about creating information.

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