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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.

— Steven Pruitt

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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.

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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