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Despite having registered accounts measured in millions, statistics show that 50% of all edits are done by ~500 users, 75% of all the edits are done by ~1400 users. Taking into account remarkable people able to create good articles in two edits we would find that Wikipedia as we know it would not exist without 2..3 thousand people
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- User:Alex Bakharev, ArbCom Nomination 2006.
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Why would an expert bother contributing his valuable time to a project that can be ruined by any random idiot on the net? People love to compare Wikipedia to Open Source but guess what: bad, incorrect code doesn't compile. Bad, incorrect information on the net lives on and non-experts hardly ever notice the mistake.
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Hi, I'm a graduate of Manchester Polytechnic & University of York who is interested in lots of things, which makes me useful for pub quizzes but not very employable. I've been editing here since 8th August 2007, clocking up 8000 edits[1]. But luckily I don't suffer from vanity or guilt in this. These are just numbers and I'd rather be judged by the quality of what I do here rather than its quantity.
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- I practised law in Liverpool from 1974 to 1982 and qualified in 1978
- I've appeared on University Challenge (1984)
- I researched, wrote & published The York Quiz Book (1988)
- I sometimes write software that does things that need doing. I do Visual Basic & Visual C++
- I have also worked on real-time safety-critical systems for the rail industry
- I have a keen sense of the ridiculous, pricking pomposity whenever I can - and there are a lot of pompous pricks out there
- A computer once beat me at chess, but was no match for me at kick boxing.
- My body is a temple; a ruined temple, OK, but it's still a temple.
- I went to the Kilkenny Festival but Cartman didn't turn up.
Once I had her, now I have an encyclopedia
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Does Yoda look like Paul Daniels, or vice versa?
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Last updated 11:00, 16 February 2008 (UTC) by Tangobot
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