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Steven Pruitt Quotes

born 1984 United States

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.

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Also known as: Ser Amantio di Nicolao

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I’m not sure I believed the ‘anyone can edit’ part of it until I became part of 'everyone'.

My interests are maybe not the most ordinary, but I have them, and I follow them.

You don’t get numbers like mine without being a bit obsessive. I probably edit a bit more when I should be cleaning my room.

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.

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.

I have my moments, I think everyone does. But then I look back on some of the articles I’ve written […] and it feels good. That wonderful feeling of having made something useful. That’s what keeps me going, often as not.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Steven Pruitt (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.