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> Justin Knapp: One man, one million Wikipedia edits - JOE
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post Fri 20th April 2012, 12:05pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Justin Knapp: One man, one million [b]Wikipedia edits[/b]
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An American man by the name of Justin Knapp has made his 1000000th edit to the online encyclopaedia that is Wikipedia. That's 480000 more than his closest rival. Justin Knapp uses his spare time to update, upload and edit content on Wikipedia.

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post Fri 20th April 2012, 12:53pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Hardest working man on the internet passes one million [b]Wikipedia edits[/b]
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By Daniel Cooper posted Apr 20th 2012 8:49AM Justin Knapp is probably the hardest working man on the internet after becoming the first person to pass the million-edit-mark on Wikipedia. Since 2005, he's made around 385 amendments per day, ...

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post Fri 20th April 2012, 2:32pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Man Makes Millionth [b]Wikipedia Edit; Questions Life Choices[/b]
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If you're like us, you rely on Wikipedia not only for research at work, but also to answer just about every question we ever have anymore. It's meant the death of barroom arguments over the minutest of trivia, but Wikipedia wouldn't be where it is ...



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post Fri 20th April 2012, 2:28pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Man Makes Millionth [b]Wikipedia Edit; Questions Life Choices[/b]
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by The Mark Newsroom If you're like us, you rely on Wikipedia not only for research at work, but also to answer just about every question we ever have anymore. It's meant the death of barroom arguments over the minutest of trivia, but Wikipedia ...

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post Fri 20th April 2012, 2:19pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia User Makes 1 Million Edits[/b]
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There really should be an award for editing 1 million Wikipedia articles. But when former pizza delivery guy and Indiana resident Justin Knapp became the first person to break that milestone on April 18, all he got was a tiny announcement from ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Daily Roundup: [b]Wikipedia Editor Reaches One Million Edits[/b]
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By Sandy Fitzgerald Do you think you work hard? A Wikipedia editor has done one million edits for the site, and is still pounding them out at an average of hundreds per day. Meanwhile, five regional carriers are offering the iPhone, meaning customers ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Seven Years, One Million Edits, Zero Dollars: [b]Wikipedia's Flat Broke Superstar[/b]
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Nearly 4 million entries on Wikipedia are all written and edited by volunteers. On April 19, Justin Knapp—user name koavf—became the first person to complete 1000000 edits on the massive, online, open-source encyclopedia. For his efforts, he hasn't ...

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Nearly 4 million entries on Wikipedia are all written and edited by volunteers. On April 19, Justin Knapp—user name koavf—became the first person to complete 1000000 edits on the massive, online, open-source encyclopedia. For his efforts, he hasn't ...

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Nearly four million entires on Wikipedia are all written and edited by volunteers. On April 19, Justin Knapp — user name koavf — became the first person to complete 1000000 edits on the massive, online, open-source encyclopedia.

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Nearly 4 million entires on Wikipedia are all written and edited by volunteers. On April 19, Justin Knapp—user name koavf—became the first person to complete 1000000 edits on the massive, online, open-source encyclopedia. For his efforts, he hasn't ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Seven Years, One Million Edits, Zero Dollars: [b]Wikipedia's Flat Broke Superstar[/b]
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Nearly four million entires on Wikipedia are all written and edited by volunteers. On April 19, Justin Knapp — user name koavf — became the first person to complete 1000000 edits on the massive, online, open-source encyclopedia.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia Hero: Former Pizza Delivery Guy Hits 1 Million Edits Milestone[/b]
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By Johnny Wills | April 21, 2012 4:01 PM EDT If you think that you work hard, then here is an inspirational story of a man who became the first person to accomplish 1 million edits on World's largest online encyclopedia - Wikipedia.

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Hardest working man on the internet passes one million [b]Wikipedia edits[/b]
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BY DANIEL COOPER Justin Knapp is probably the hardest working man on the internet after becoming the first person to pass the million-edit-mark on Wikipedia. Since 2005, he's made around 385 amendments per day, each one taking him around four minutes ...



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Indianapolis man is first to make 1 million [b]Wikipedia edits[/b]
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London, April 22 (ANI): An Indianapolis man who is one of Wikipedia's crew of volunteer editors has become the first to edit the online encyclopedia a million times - averaging 385 edits per day since he began in 2005. Justin Knapp, 30, has edited ...

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An Indianapolis man who is one of Wikipedia's crew of volunteer editors has become the first to edit the online encyclopedia a million times - averaging 385 edits per day since he began in 2005. Justin Knapp, 30, has edited pieces about politics, ...



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An Indianapolis man who is one of Wikipedia's crew of volunteer editors has become the first to edit the online encyclopedia a million times - averaging 385 edits per day since he began in 2005. Justin Knapp, 30, has edited pieces about politics, ...

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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />[b]Wikipedia honours editor of 1 million edits[/b]
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INDIANAPOLIS - An American man has become the first person to make one million contributions to Wikipedia, having edited the site for seven years. Mr Justin Knapp, 30, from Indianapolis, has edited Wikipedia at a rate of 385 edits per day, ...



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Wikipedia fan Justin Knapp must have worked his fingers to the bone, to set his record for editing the online encyclopedia no less than a million times since his debut in 2005. Knapp is quoted as saying that “being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed ...

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