Steven Pruitt

American Wikipedia editor with most edits

Steven Pruitt (born April 17, 1984) is an American Wikipedia editor and administrator with over 5 million edits, having made at least one edit to one-third of all English Wikipedia articles. Named as one of the 25 most important influencers on the Internet by Time magazine in 2017, Pruitt edits under the pseudonym Ser Amantio di Nicolao.

I’m not sure I believed the ‘anyone can edit’ part of it until I became part of 'everyone'.
What can we unlock from the libraries? What can we make accessible? We’re getting to define who belongs in the greater canon of knowledge.

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  • What can we unlock from the libraries? What can we make accessible? We’re getting to define who belongs in the greater canon of knowledge. Here we are, a bunch of people on the internet, redesigning the canon.
    • Quoted in "The Wikiman, William and Mary Alumni Magazine (September 17, 2018)
  • The act of creating content is more codified than it was [when Wikipedia started] and I think ultimately it makes it less friendly for novice users. For the self-guided editor, it’s not as easy as it was for me.

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