# Has anyone here contributed to Wikipedia? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 22, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287 "2005-11-22T18:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![stuyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/21 "2005-11-22T22:48:42Z")
Just call me Mr. Speedbump. Recently, while researching something else entirely in a newspaper archive, I discovered a reference to what was probably the first-ever use of the automotive **speedbump**. (Is that cool, or what?) I went to Wiki to see what they had to say on the matter. Their first attribution was over three decades after the date of my discovery. So I added my findings to their entry, complete with cites. (I also sent word to AAA, who I hope will act on the news. I mean, the centennial birthday of the speedbump is only a few months away and somebody should do something to celebrate, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/22 "2005-11-22T22:49:01Z")
I’ve made minor corrections and gotten rid of graffiti. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/23 "2005-11-22T23:09:13Z")
I expanded a stub about [Yanni](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yanni) into a full-fledged article. Basically I summarized his autobiography into four or five paragraphs. Later editors have since rearranged my paragraphs, excised a few sentences, changed some words here & there, etc. But for the most part, everything from the paragraph that begins “Although many fans and critics…” through the paragraph that ends “…biggest commercial success to date” is my own contribution. The same can be said about the article for the movie [The Ring](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ring). Excluding some rearrangements, excisions & wording changes, almost everything below the spoiler warning through the last paragraph of the summary is my work. A stub about [Ozark Christian College](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Christian_College) is all mine. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/24 "2005-11-23T02:40:39Z")
I’ve done a few very small edits, most as mundane as correcting broken links or bad spelling. And yes, IMHO is probably better. Just for future reference. ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/25 "2005-11-23T03:54:09Z")
I’m an [administrator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiepedia:Administrators) and an [Arbitrator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Comitttee) at the English Wikipedia. I also have editor’s accounts on the [German Wikipedia](http://de.wikipedia.org) (although I have yet to edit there), the [Wikimedia Commons](http://commons.wikimedia.org), and the [Wikimedia Meta-Wiki](http://meta.wikimedia.org). I am approaching [7000](http://tools.wikimedia.de/~kate/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=Kelly+Martin&dbname=enwiki) [edits](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Kelly_Martin) on the English Wikipedia. There are somewhere between 600 and 700 administrators (we promote about a dozen new ones each week); administrators have the special abilities to temporarily block other users from editing, protect pages from editing, and delete articles and media. They’re vaguely equivalent to moderators on the SDMB. There are twelve Arbitrators; acting together in committee we have the authority to ban people entirely from the Wiki (for up to a year at a time) or impose such other conduct restrictions as are appropriate to deal with behavioral problems. Bans of over one year are beyond our mandate and require an appeal to either [Jimbo Wales](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales) or the [Board of the Wikimedia Foundation](http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_of_Trustees). I would encourage all of you who edit the English Wikipedia to update your listing in [Wikipedia:Teeming Millions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teeming_Millions). Someone adventurous editor might even feel the urge to create a userbox template for SDMB members (similar to the Advogato userbox that I already have on my [user page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kelly_Martin)). I’m not sure what **Polycarp** is saying about me being involved in this “Wiki movement”. I’m just an editor who got into conflict resolution over there, and, due to being successful at that, was asked to serve on the Arbitration Committee. Other than that, I don’t have that much to do with this “movement”, whatever it is. Finally, I wish vB accepted Wiki markup. Wiki markup makes SO much more sense than the nonsense vB uses. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/26 "2005-11-23T04:03:58Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > …snip…I would encourage all of you who edit the English Wikipedia to update your listing in [Wikipedia:Teeming Millions](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teeming_Millions)…snip… Ok I did. It was only my 14th edit as Garion but I made about 10-12 more before I had a profile. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/27 "2005-11-23T04:09:39Z")
> [@KellyM](#): > > I’m an [administrator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiepedia:Administrators) and an [Arbitrator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Comitttee) at the English Wikipedia. {massive snippage} > > I’m not sure what **Polycarp** is saying about me being involved in this “Wiki movement”. I’m just an editor who got into conflict resolution over there, and, due to being successful at that, was asked to serve on the Arbitration Committee. Other than that, I don’t have that much to do with this “movement”, whatever it is. “Wiki movement” in my mind was a way to condense “the whole idea of creating a massively-multiple user-produced encyclopedia and the methodology to put that idea into practice.” And I knew you played a significant role in the management of the Wikipedia, though not what that role was, exactly, until now. ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/28 "2005-11-23T04:23:12Z")
I wiki as a hobby. I mostly work with articles on politics, academic law and pro wrestling. (I’ll repeat that… ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/29 "2005-11-23T04:26:03Z")
Made some corrections here and there, most notably to the article about Benedict Arnold (article said he won the Battle of Valcour Island, which, well, he didn’t :rolleyes: ). Also added some stuff to a couple of Honor Harrington related articles that were much expanded on by other editors. Oh, and I also added the entry for AggieCon (the science fiction convention that I work at). Mostly, it’s just minor grammatical corrections and such. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/30 "2005-11-23T05:15:08Z")
I edited horsepower stats for a couple of years of Ford’s modular 4.6 liter V8 in the '92 to '05 Crown Vic. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/31 "2005-11-23T05:15:56Z")
Off to IMHO. **DRMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/32 "2005-11-23T05:22:31Z")
[Hey.](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Montrealais) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/33 "2005-11-23T05:24:19Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > [Hey.](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Montrealais) As long as we’ve wandered over to IMHO: Cute Kitty. Jim ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/34 "2005-11-23T06:19:05Z")
I added the Track Listing for Garfield’s ((The Comic Strip)) CD (Actual Name… No lie) “Am I cool or what?” apparently not ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/35 "2005-11-23T06:24:22Z")
I’ve got an account there, but I did a fair number of edits before I set it up. I’ll correct grammar and syntax on anything. I wrote almost all of the Gregg Allman entry and almost all of the Derek Trucks entry. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/36 "2005-11-23T10:45:16Z")
I wrote most of the Television article’s sections on Television Broadcasting, Color Television, and Television Sets. Originated articles on Mount Mary College, Selznick-International Pictures, the Death Master Index, James Morasco, Long Acre Street (in London), School Sisters of Notre Dame. Did a lot of writing and editing of the Ray Bradbury article and on his individual works, and the Technicolor article. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/37 "2005-11-23T12:01:16Z")
I’ve forgotten even my username on Wikipedia now. I think that the editing back and forward of the entry on my home town (Strabane) may have prompted others to have a look and more successfully edit out some nonsense someone else was posting about the town. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/38 "2005-11-23T12:12:16Z")
I added the description of _Tripad Board_ to [this page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veroboard). Editing/submitting was a nightmare, for some reason - I have not attempted anything else since. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/39 "2005-11-23T15:49:26Z")
I added to the entry on Barbara Hambly - updated her books published list and included her often overlooked first novel. I’m thinking of going back and adding synopses for each of the books (is it sad that I own them all? Probably.) I’ve also thought of adding an episode list and character description to _Law and Order: Special Victims Unit_, as that is my newest addiction. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287/40 "2005-11-23T15:53:13Z")
I am Paul in Saudi on the Wiki. I am the Head Ent of the page on military codewords and have added many such pages. You gotta go with what you know. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-contributed-to-wikipedia/332287.md?page=3)