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Guinness has partnered with Wikimedia UK in a bid to tackle the lack of representation of women in sport.

As part of the brands Never Settle campaign, the pair will work together to ensure that every member of the competing home nation squads for this years Womens Six Nations Finals Weekend is properly recorded on Wikipedia.

Guinness has highlighted the fact that only 6% of sports media coverage in the UK is dedicated to female athletes and teams, with ust 18% of all biographies on Wikipedia of women. Indeed, the brand says the gap widens further in sport where just 3% of 14,916 rugby related biographies are of female players. The current Guinness Six Nations mens squads have 392% more words devoted to them than their female counterparts.

The brand also points out that only 30% of the current Womens Six Nation squad players have a presence on Wikipedia at all, while of those who did, some 86% didnt have an image or more than a very basic biography.

In addition, the international team pages see a stark disparity across the mens and womens games, with the current male rugby squads receiving more than 9,000 words on their page, whereas the womens teams have on average just 900.

In order to tackle the inequality, Guinness has invited Wikipedia editors, womens rugby fans, writers, and journalists to take part in the campaign, adding to the stories of past and present personalities.

The brand says it is also working with players on a global scale to update their Twitter profiles, ensuring they are in line with the new verification standards. According to Guinness, this will provide female players with the same platform to build connections with their fans, and will also help to improve and increase conversation about the players and the sport globally.

In the last twelve months, out of the 307,541 tweets mentioning rugby or the six nations globally, only 10% of those were about the womens game.

Were delighted to be partnering with GUINNESS for this project, to shine a light on womens rugby players and their achievements, said Lucy Crompton-Reid, CEO, Wikimedia UK.

As the UK charity for the global Wikimedia movement, we are well aware of the gender gap online which reflects systemic bias and historical inequalities and are working with a wide range of partners to increase the representation of women on Wikipedia.

Neil Shah, Head of Guinness GB added: We know its hard to be what you cant see. We believe the first step in increasing the visibility for womens rugby players in line with the mens game is spotlighting who they are this step will make getting to know them easier than ever by bringing their stories to Wikipedia.

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Two Aboriginal languages Atayal and Sediq have been added to the languages in which information is available on Wikipedia, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday.

The languages, which Wikipedia lists as Tayal and Sediq Taroko, were recognized by the online encyclopedia and granted their own language option on March 16, the ministry said.

There were 2,400 Wikipedia entries in Atayal and 1,037 in Sediq, the ministry said.

The two became the second and third languages of Taiwan-based Aborigines on Wikipedia, following the Sakizaya language, which was added in November 2019, it said.

Before recognizing a language and allowing it its own section, the Wikimedia Foundation assesses how many active users have contributed to entries in the language over a period.

Amis might also receive its own Wikipedia option soon, the foundation said.

The ministry, in collaboration with National Chengchi University (NCCU), launched a Wikipedia project six years ago with the goal of promoting writing in Aboriginal languages and encouraging the languages use among young people, Deputy Minister of Education Lin Teng-chiao () said.

However, while spoken Aboriginal languages in Taiwan have been used and passed on, their writing systems are far more recent, mainly based on the Latin alphabet.

They were not officially recognized until 2005.

A 2016 report commissioned by the Council of Indigenous Peoples evaluated native language proficiency among Aborigines through tests given to more than 20,000 people in 16 languages.

The report showed that only 27.6 percent of Sediq were able to read the newly developed script, while less than 12 percent knew how to write it.

Only 20.6 percent of Atayal were capable of reading the script, while less than 5 percent could write it, the report said.

When it comes to preserving languages, speaking and writing are both important, Lin said, adding that through the project, young Aborigines obtain knowledge in their mother tongue under the guidance of their elders.

NCCU professor Lim Siu-theh (), who presides over the project, said that in addition to documenting the written language, the group also reinvents words so they can be used in a modern context.

Hitay-Payan, a leader of the editing team for Atayal entries on Wikipedia, said that there were challenges creating entries in his native tongue.

The team began by translating introductory texts on well-known people, he said.

Lituk Teymu, who leads the Sediq editing team, said that she was pleased to see the language of her ancestors being given a global stage.

The team would continue to promote the Sediq language, she said.

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A unique online project is putting a spotlight on women artists from Central Europe. Some 250 artists spanning three generations fromPoland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary are included on a growing platform that hopes to uplift womens voices and highlight their artistic contributions in a region where they have historically been overlooked.

Created by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation in Warsaw together with international partners, the easy-to-search archive, calledSecondary Archive, should be useful for scholars and curators from the region.

In Central and Eastern Europe, we were always educated with Western historical canons. We know more about Western history than we know of our neighboring countries, Polish-based Agata Cielak, the Secondary Archives coordinator and an artist listed on the platform, told Artnet News. It is important for us to bring the region together and understand what that actually meansbecause we come from similar backgrounds, historically speaking, though the contemporary situation is completely different.

The projecta sort of Wikipedia for Central European female artistswas built out from an initial core list of artists devised by theKatarzyna Kozyra Foundation and its partners. Organizers then invited the living artists on the list to share their work and write a statement about what they create and why.The aim was to invite female artists to speak for themselves,Cielak said.

While the political and art historical trajectories in the nations in the archive are unique, they were all marked by decades of communism which, according to the platforms statement to Artnet News, was a particularly difficult time due to the barriers it introduced to the cultural and social emancipation of women.

More recently, there has been a staggering regression in gender equity in Poland, and the platform has offered an opportunity for artists to voice their grievances. A near-total ban on abortion in the Central European nation sparked the historic Women Strike protests last fall, which also drew on the work of a number of artists.

In Poland today, Iam perceived by ultra-right-wing circles as adifferent, alien, childless, middle-aged woman, a widow, aconcubine, contaminated by COVID, an artist, writesAleksandra Ska.

The platforms name,Secondary Archive, plays on the idea of the second sex as coined by Simone de Beauvoir in her 1949 book, which explored womens place in a male-dominated society.

Cielak said the project already has concretized plans to expand to Belarus and Ukraine, and eventually Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

Visit the Secondary Archive here.

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The op-ed was published ahead of Bushs interview with CBS Norah ODonnell that's set to air in clips beginning Sunday, in which he said hes ready to re-enter the debate on immigration. In his piece, Bush called for a path to citizenship for Dreamers, increased border security, working with other countries to stem the root causes of migration as well a "modernized" asylum system and higher levels of legal immigration, "focused on employment and skills."

He also said that amnesty for millions of undocumented people would be "fundamentally unfair" for others who have legal immigration status or are waiting to become citizens. But he also said that undocumented immigrants should be able to earn residency and citizenship gradually via employment, paying taxes, "English proficiency and knowledge of U.S. history and civics, and a clean background check."

No proposal on immigration will have credibility without confidence that our laws are carried out consistently and in good faith, Bush wrote.

Bush attempted to pass immigration reform through when he was in office, but failed to get the legislation through Congress. In the interview with CBS, Bush said not getting immigration reform passed was one of the biggest disappointments as president.

I campaigned on immigration reform. I made it abundantly clear to voters this is something I intended to do, Bush said.

Since Bush left office, Congress has been unable to pass significant immigration reform, with Trump and former President Barack Obama both relying heavily on executive action.

"All that means is that Congress isn't doing its job," Bush said in the CBS interview.

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Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and leading labor and immigration advocates Tuesday called on Washington to pass comprehensive immigration reform amid a major uptick in migrants, particularly unaccompanied minors, illegally entering the country.

Declaring Long Island an "island of immigrants," Bellone said that moving people who are here illegally "out of the shadows" would unleash the region's economy, expanding the tax base and incentivizing employers to improve working conditions.

Bellone plans to send a letter to the region's congressional delegation calling for them to pass a bill that will include a pathway to citizenship while strengthening the border. Roughly one in five Long Islanders were born outside the United States.

"What we have now is unworkable," Bellone said at Pronto of Long Island in Bay Shore, an immigrant advocacy organization. "It is a failed system that is nothing short of a massive failure of our national government. Instead of a process that gives people the recognition they deserve to serve as productive citizens, we have a process that keeps people hidden in the shadows."

Roger Clayman, executive director of the Long Island Federation of Labor, said many of those who entered the country illegally pay taxes and contribute to the larger economy.

"We are a labor movement of immigrants," he said. "We want to do everything we can to make certain they have the same rights and protections as everyone else."

Maria Rivera, owner of Fifth Avenue Hair Styling in Bay Shore, came to Suffolk 16 years ago from El Salvador and holds temporary protected status, allowing her to remain in the country legally.

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"Legal or illegal, we are all human and deserve to be part of this amazing country because at the end of the day we pay our taxes and do good by our community," Rivera said. "In this country we work from sun up to sundown. We are here to make an honest living and live our dreams."

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Robert Brodsky is a breaking news reporter who has worked at Newsday since 2011. He is a Queens College and American University alum.

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