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Wikipedia bans five editors from gender-related articles amid gamergate controversy

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Wikipedia editors have been banned from topics relating to gender and sexuality. Photograph: Wikipedia

Wikipedias arbitration committee, the highest user-run body on the site, has voted to ban a number of editors from making corrections to articles about feminism, in an attempt to stop a long-running edit war over the entry on the Gamergate controversy.

The editors, who were all actively attempting to prevent the article from being rewritten with a pro-Gamergate slant, were sanctioned by arbcom in its preliminary decision. While that may change as it is finalised, the body, known as Wikipedias supreme court, rarely reverses its decisions.

The sanction bars the editors from having anything to do with any articles covering Gamergate, but also from any other article about gender or sexuality, broadly construed.

Editors who had been pushing for the Wikipedia article to be fairer to Gamergate have also been sanctioned by the committee

Mark Bernstein, a writer and former Wikipedia editor, said that, This takes care of social justice warriors with a vengeance not only do the Gamergaters get to rewrite their own page (and Zoe Quinns, Brianna Wus, Anita Sarkeesians, etc); feminists are to be purged en bloc from the encyclopedia.

The conflict on the site began almost alongside Gamergate, a grassroots campaign broadly targeting alleged corruption in games journalism and perceived feminist influence in the videogame industry. Even the title of the article was fought over: Gamergate itself is taken by an article about a type of ant, leaving the article about video games to move to Gamergate Controversy.

At one point, Wikipedias founder, Jimmy Wales, was drawn into the debate, telling a student who had emailed him over perceived bias in the article that Gamergate has been permanently tarnished and hijacked by a handful of people who are not what you would hope.

Wales advice for Gamergate supporters who wanted to change the Wikipedia article was to be constructive, and present a vision for the article which they wanted to read rather than engage in a war with feminist editors who were trying to maintain their vision.

Arbcoms rulings dont mean the war is over, but for some editors its still giving cause for concern. Abigail Brady, a former Wikipedia editor, left the site over its treatment of the page for whistleblower Chelsea Manning, which was kept under Mannings old name, of Bradley Manning, for months after she came out as transgender.

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AfriLeaks gives truth a fighting chance

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African whistle-blower website afriLeaks is hosted in another country, which means it is safe from African government subpoenas.

Whistle-blowers can leak documents and information securely to media houses on afriLeaks. (Reuters)

In 2010, United States intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning leaked 750000 documents to the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. These included diplomatic cables and videos of US airstrikes, which seemingly killed civilians. US military investigators quickly traced the leak back to Manning and, after a military trial, sentenced her to 35 years in prison.

She did not have access to a secure server to which she would have been able to upload the documents anonymously.

Like her, anyone wanting to share sensitive information with a newspaper has run the risk of detection by governments, companies or hackers.

But now whistle-blowers can leak documents and information securely to media houses on a website called afriLeaks.

This is a partnership between the African Network of Centres for Investigative Reporting, the Hermes Centre for Transparency and Digital Human Rights, based in Italy, and several media houses in Africa. The Mail & Guardian and Oxpeckers, an environmental investigative unit, are the only South African publishing houses involved.

How does it work? AfriLeaks is a website based in the Netherlands. As a would-be whistle-blower, you would go tosecure.afrileaks.org.

The website explains the best way to protect your online identity, after which you click on the blow the whistle link. You can then upload files and a message, for example, for the M&G, which is notified that a leak has been submitted.

Unless you chose to reveal your identity, there is no way for the M&G to know who you are.

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LETTERS: Call it what it is: Treason

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An Ohio man and radicalized Muslim convert, Christopher Cornell, was arrested for plotting to attack the Capitol.

This is a treasonous plot to overthrow our government, but he will undoubtedly not be charged with treason. Others who should be charged with teason include Major Nidal Hasan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, American Muslim imams who support arming the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and all the American citizens who went to fight with ISIS.

But they wont be.

This is particularly the case with President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in office, who fail to support and defend the Constitution and the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. No one has been charged with treason for many years.

Why?

This is a serious matter that should be looked into by our elected representatives and the media. Our survival is at stake.

Daniel B. Jeffs

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Keystone pipeline myths

I would like to clear up a few of the comments made by John Berry [Aguilar fails to act on his promises, Letters, Jan. 13].

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How Vivienne Westwood fell in love with Prince Charles

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For a designer who has long used the establishment as a frame of reference for reaction, Vivienne Westwood the anti-monarchist, anti-establishment, godmother of punk dedicating her autumn/winter 2015 collection to Prince Charles in celebration of his environmental work was always going to polarise fans.

I want to pay tribute to Prince Charles, wrote Westwood on a set of briefing notes (emblazoned with an image of Charles in a beret) given to guests at her autumn/winter 2015 menswear show in Milan. If Prince Charles had ruled the world according to his priorities during the last 30 years, we would be alright and we would be tackling climate change.

The T-shirts, worn under blazers and by Westwood herself, are part of a Westwood perennial of using fashion as a political vehicle; fans might recall tops embellished with I Am Not a Terrorist for civil-rights charity Liberty, and an entire collection in 2013 dedicated to Chelsea Manning. The rest of the collection, though, was relatively staid for the designer, referencing traditional royal sartorial norms: sharp Savile Row-style tailored suits, trad brocade florals on blazers and coats in a houndstooth print.

Given Westwoods history with the royal family she has twice attended Buckingham Palace with no knickers on, and has regularly goaded the establishment in various ways over the past forty years this homage might seem implausible. But she recently set her targets on the environment, and previously endorsed Prince Charles, saying he had done an amazing amount in this world.

Charles has long been an outspoken environmentalist, and was recently handed increasing responsibility of the Queens Sandringham estate as part of the gentle succession. He is expected to use the land to implement more changes, including organic farming, an activity Westwood has backed with equal candour.

Its evidence of the designers continued move away from her roots. After all, along with her partner Malcolm Mclaren, she played a pivotal role in establishing the punk scene in the late 1970s and has previously described her motivation for adopting anti-establishment messages into her collections as an heroic attempt to confront the older generation. But as Westwood knows, the medium is the message and what better way to send it home that by subverting expectation?

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The Fix: Here’s what a bunch of historians think Obama needs to do for his legacy

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The latest issue of New York Magazine includesa giant featurethat allowed 53 historians to wax eloquent on what they think President Obama's presidency will mean when we're all dead.

The historians discussed whether Obama's 2008 campaign was realized in office, what his legacy will be, what the world will think of him and what his greatest accomplishment was (the most popular response was Obamacare). It's a fascinating array of analyses, worth reading in full.

Since Obama's legacy will still be shaping itself for decades to come, and still seems too close to our faces to judge, we were most interested in the historians' to-do list of what Obama has yet to accomplish if he wants to impress the millennials who will decide what his presidency means 40 or 50 years from now.

Here are some of their ideas:

"Close Guantnamo"

"Prosecute those American officials that tortured detainees"

"Pardon the Bush administration for torture"

"Pardon Edward Snowden, John Kyriakou, Thomas Drake, and Chelsea Manning for their actions as whistleblowers and preemptively pardon George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other government officials who participated in the Bush-era torture regime"

"Pardon Edward Snowden!"

"One more speech about race in the wake of Ferguson, Garner, et al."

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Chelsea Manning – Malaysia Forex

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