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In the media

Anonymous Australian editing targets football player, shooting victim

Indigenous Australian war dance after scoring a goal during a May 29 game. The game was part of the Indigenous Round, an annual event celebrating the contributions of Indigenous football players, Goodes, whose mother is of Adnyamathanha and Narungga descent, said he was inspired by the Flying Boomerangs, the Indigenous under-16 AFL team, and it was "just a little bit of a tribute to those guys ... proud to be Aboriginal and represent." Despite this, many reacted negatively to the display. Goodes said: "Is this the lesson we want to teach our children, that when we don't understand something we get angry and put our back up against the wall [and decide] that's offensive?". Goodes, who has been in the AFL since the 1997 AFL draft

, has previously been the target of racist remarks from fans and even other sports figures.
The
New York Police Department (see Signpost coverage
).

In brief

A map of the London Underground created by Sameboat

Cat House in Riga, Latvia

Jacob Zuma

Wikimedia profile: The Hindu talks with (June 4) Wikimedian and scientist Shyamal Lakshminarayanan.

More UK government vandalism:
The Daily Mirror reports on a June 3 edit from an UK government IP address to the article Right-wing dictatorship. The edit added British Prime Minister David Cameron
to the section "List of European right-wing dictatorships".

Très hilarante:
Drake
.

If I had a nickel...: Supercompressor interviews (June 2) Justin Knapp (Koavf) who tops the List of Wikipedians by number of edits at 1.479 million edits.

Signatories: blood diamonds
.

Mapping the metro:
CityMetric favorably compares (June 1) a map of the London Underground found on Wikipedia to the official map, of which it writes "it's cramped, it’s unclear, and it just isn't very pretty." The Wiki map, which it calls "far better than the real thing", was created by Sameboat and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
in August 2014. Sameboat has also created maps of a number of other transit systems for cities around the world.

Another esoteric list: Boing Boing offers the "Top 10 Wikipedia articles containing the phrase 'legend has it' and at least one cat" (June 1).

Anniversaries: Bangla Wikipedia
.

Picture puzzle: The Guardian claims (May 31) that the Wikipedia article for English journalist Rod Liddle actually featured a picture of MP Michael Fabricant. An examination of the edit history of Liddle's article for the last two years reveals no image of anyone in the article.

Minding the gender gap: The May 28 episode of the Meta-Wiki
as a resource for those who wish to help address the issue.

Building on Fire: firepool, which is currently under discussion at Articles for Deletion. MyBroadband urges readers to "Save the Firepool Wikipedia page
" (June 3).

Redaktado en esperanto: The Verge reports (May 29) on online advocates of the constructed language Esperanto, including Chuck Smith, founder of the Esperanto Wikipedia in December 2001.

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Regarding the mystery of the image claimed to be on the
WP:HD often gets complaints about the wrong image for these; the response, inevitable, is to suggest telling Google about Google's error.) -- John Broughton (♫♫) 22:02, 6 June 2015 (UTC)[reply
]

It is - googling "Rod Liddle" does indeed bring up a Knowledge Graph showing Fabricant. Inaccuracies about Wikipedia in The Guardian - who'd have ever predicted that? Yunshui ^雲 _水 08:55, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the line "...Goodes, whose mother was of Adnyamathanha and Narungga descent,..." I am pretty sure his mother is still alive, so shouldn't it be "is" instead of "was"? AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 00:38, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ooops! Fixed it. Thank you. Gamaliel (talk) 00:49, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure that we should bother reporting reports about common mindless vandalism - the offensive edits to Goodes' page were only online for 8 minutes before they were reverted. The-Pope (talk) 13:27, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've started ignoring the minor cases of vandalism. Sports media in particular seems fond of Wikipedia vandalism stories. But this one in particular got a lot of media attention, probably because it touched on larger controversial issues, and so it was impossible to ignore. Gamaliel (talk) 19:39, 8 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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