Posted by : Cyber Freak
Saturday, 21 April 2012
There really should be an award for editing 1 million Wikipedia articles. But when former pizza delivery guy and Indiana resident Justin Knapp became the first person to break that milestone on April 18, all he got was a tiny announcement posted on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discussion page.
“Today Koavf became the first wikipedian with 1 Million edits,” wikpiedian TonyTheTiger posted on Wikipedia. There’s not really a comparable accomplishment in the online realm: maxwellhill, a user of social news site Reddit, snagged his one millionth karma point last year.
He’s 29 years old, Christian joined Wikipedia in March 2005, and has degrees in political science and philosophy from Indiana University. Most of his edits are on the topics of politics, philosophy and religion. He thinks his Wiki prose needs work, but he’s a solid editor and copyeditor. The hardest working editor on the sixth most-popular website in the world is an under-employed former pizza delivery man. Something’s not right about that. “The search for truth is rich because of reciprocity between persons,” Knapp wrote on his user page.
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