# For pure, distilled, idle curiousity - how many Dopers are also Wikipedia editors/contributors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-pure-distilled-idle-curiousity-how-many-dopers-are-also-wikipedia-editors-contributors/563897 "2010-12-12T17:18:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-pure-distilled-idle-curiousity-how-many-dopers-are-also-wikipedia-editors-contributors/563897/34 "2010-12-14T07:27:01Z")
I make obvious corrections from time to time, though using an avatar named differently from **septimus**. I also tried to have a bit of fun in the _Mornington Crescent Game_ here two months ago, writing > [@Mornington Crescent question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mornington-crescent-question/554794/197): > > …As you can see [from his wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thorold_Gosset&oldid=388850158), Thorold Gosset led the way in solving MC for special topologies. He went undefeated for 219 games (a record which, AFAIK, still stands) during that era when the Underground had exactly [120 stations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecaplex) and was instrumental in the expansion to 240 stations (an expansion which of course overshot to lamentable consequences)… From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: > [@](#): > > Thorold Gosset (1869–1962) was an English lawyer and an amateur mathematician. … He was especially noted for his theoretical work with Mornington Crescent (game). > … Gosset’s results went largely unnoticed for many years, with the exception of MC afficionados for whom his “Mornington Crescent on the Dodecaplex” is especially remembered. No one clicked the link, of course, so my attempt at whimsy went unappreciated. :dubious: I am not a Wiki vandal and had planned on reverting the page within the week. Instead, some other Wikiist reverted it the very next day. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-pure-distilled-idle-curiousity-how-many-dopers-are-also-wikipedia-editors-contributors/563897)._