The ways described below are some of the ways it has been mentioned. Citations of Wikipedia in culture People who are known to have used or recommended Wikipedia as a reference source include comedian Rosie O'Donnell, and Rutgers University sociology professor Ted Goertzel. Various people including Sir Ian McKellen, Nicolas Cage, and Marcus Brigstocke have criticized or commented about Wikipedia's articles about themselves. In politics In June 2011, Wikipedia received attention for attempts by editors to change the "Paul Revere" article to fit Sarah Palin's accounting of events during a campaign bus tour. The New York Times reported that the article "had half a million page views" by June 10, and "after all the attention and arguments, the article is now much longer ... and much better sourced ... than before Palin's remarks." In a speech given on October 28, 2013, to support Ken Cuccinelli for the candidacy of the governor of Virginia, Senator Rand Paul appeared to include close paraphrasing of the Wikipedia entry on the film Gattaca () in his comments on eugenics, as noted by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. In April 2015, The Guardian reported claims that British Conservative party chairman Grant Shapps or a person working under Shapps' orders had edited Wikipedia pages about Shapps and other members of British Parliament during the runup to the 2015 election, to which Shapps had denied involvement. In October 2018, Jackson A. Cosko, a former staff member for US Senator Maggie Hassan, misused Hassan's computers, after he had been fired, to edit Wikipedia to dox several Congresspersons, including Sen. Mitch McConnell. Cosko pleaded guilty in April 2019. In February 2022, journalists at The Independent found that text from Wikipedia articles on Constantinople and the list of largest cities throughout history had been lifted by civil servants from the UK's Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and placed verbatim into the government's Levelling Up White Paper. Wikipedia as comedic material Wikipedia is parodied at several websites, including Uncyclopedia and Encyclopedia Dramatica. In May 2006, British chat show host Paul O'Grady received an inquiry from a viewer regarding information given on his Wikipedia page, to which he responded, "Wikipedia? Sounds like a skin disease." Comedian Zach Galifianakis claimed to look himself up on Wikipedia in an interview with The Badger Herald, stating about himself, "...I'm looking at Wikipedia right now. Half Greek, half redneck, around 6-foot-4. And that's about it...