Meet the man behind a third of what's on Wikipedia
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Wikipedia now boasts more than 5.7 million articles in English and millions more translated into other languages, all written by online volunteers. Errol Barnett talks to one editor who was named among Time Magazine’s most influential people on the internet.
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Hahahaha
Lol!
Hey I know you
loool
The most plagiarized man on Earth
Haha
Hahaha
He LITERALLY did my schoolwork.
Ele fez nada do trabalho apresentado nos artigos, apenas pegou de pessoas que já os fizeram e colocou lá.
Thanks for knowledge and so long!
This guy deserves a gofundme. He's dedicated his life for free knowledge, it's incredible. Nothing but respect coming from me
Respect is ok, but he does open a gofundme some money should also come from you.
That's true, people are so profit-driven these days.
No one will even move his toe without being paid for it.
And he has made a lot of effort and not even got any reward.
This is the definition of humanity.
Here you go: www.gofundme.com/thank-you-steven-pruitt
@@meliohe5080 It's a saying, a way to emphasize something, in this case the respect given. Basically Jason is saying that he respects the guy alot for what he is doing, not that the only thing he would give to him is respect.
@@meliohe5080
Lol i don't think thats what he meant with that
hey man, if you're reading this, i hope no one ever makes you feel that you are crazy or a nut, that is nonsense. you are an incredible human who has helped and made a lasting, positive impact on humanity. more power to you steven.
eckzotic Thanks man
❤️
oh thanks, I really needed to hear something like that :"D
Yrok24 Not cool.
ikr i've actually talked to him
This man is literally trying his hardest to convert all historical information onto a worldwide accessible data base. He’s a legend (oh yeah yeah)
About a thousand likes and No comments, unacceptable.
www.gofundme.com/thank-you-steven-pruitt
@@vgrepairs Jus
@@eclipsexfade9522 Sus
Can you trust what he decides what makes it in and what is rejected with one of his edits...and why?
I can't. This is exactly why you can rely on un vetted and not peer reviewed open source websites
So he basically wrote all my essays?
yes
William Brännström dina och många många andras
Sao Saosson haha, mushi mushi hudukki hoobera
👍👍👍
William Brännström or edited them
I don’t see him as crazy. I think he’s doing something very honorable and respectable
Or a guy with a lot of time on his hands
Hey Siri leaving a legacy
Completely agree. We’re all surfing the Internet, at least he’s being productive with his down time. It sounds like it’s his hobby and he enjoys it. I bet he would have a fascinating TED talk if he hasn’t already done one.
@@theshiznut Haha like both of us using up precious time writing a pointless comment, what a lot of time waste
Hey Siri... YES! Very true. 😎👍🏾
Man, he gave us so much for free. He could've made a lot of money, but what a selfless, humble man!
There are many selfless people out there but the greedy and money hungry get the spotlight more often.
@@AnalyticalReckoner they control the spotlight
@RJ DA and you are?
@@nima4797 and you are?
@@golirasmonk i know you are but what am i
If he would have made money out of it, the world will be calling him a genius.
When he does it for free, the world is calling him crazy.
Of course, doing something like that without money involved is weird. And awesome.
Facts
Your talents and skills aren't free
Jimmy Wales is a multimillionaire, this guy is crazy in a sense since ordinarily this would be a paying job for any other venue
Sounds like a nice clickbait title
The man who allowed me to graduate. Thanks bruh!
wait how tf did u graduate using Wikipedia.... no schools allow that XD
Lowcountry Adventures What do you mean schools don't allow it? Since when have schools banned something like wikipedia. That is pointless.
Gwiz my school does not allow any paper that needs links to use Wikipedia.
@Ioannis Ioannis this guy knows what's up :D
Lowcountry Adventures what kind of school did u go to tf
He would destroy everyone on Jeopardy. A Walking encyclopedia.
Tampatec Every time i see your comments I think you're Tobuscus
That was what I was thinking
Tampatec At a glance, I thought you were Tobuscus.
Someone already made this joke
wikipedia started in january 2001. if he has made 3m edits, that would be, at 12 hours per day every single day all 365 days per year never once missing a beat for 18 years straight, 38 edits per hour. 38 edits per hour 12 hour days 365 days per year 18 years never. missing. a. single. day. and those are just his supposed edits. horseshit?
This dude has to be easily one of the most influential human beings that has lived in recent history.
And has never touched a breast.
Inspector Javert yes?
@@inspectorjavert5563 How would you know
@@inspectorjavert5563 Javert, have you captured 24601 yet?
Nah he wrote a trash biased site
He cited himself on school essays.
This deserves top comment 😂
ultimategotea it’s a rule that you must cite your own work if you’ve posted it earlier or it’s considered plagiarism
@@chakravarthyshanker4040it was a joke dude...
ultimategotea underrated comment😂
@@alfiepicton1339 that's the joke
He doesn't earn anything from this?! Unbelievable. What a hero.
Yeah, wikipedia is for volunteers, but i think he should win a nobel or something like that
Wikipedia is a volunteer site, yet they have messages that pop up, ALL YEAR, ASKING FOR DONATIONS TO KEEP THE SITE RUNNING. Its obvious how its being ran and taking advantage of people.
@dalfie Use your brain now, re-read what was said and what I typed... You can do it! I know it!
@dalfie Actually my bad, realizing that you couldn't understand the point in the first post made me realize that getting you to actually re-read what i said was close to impossible. As you are looking for a conflict, have fun nobody!
C LaF I used to be a wikipedist, though I recently moved to a similar volunteer platform for medical students, but I’ll try to give you a small insight - the main work on the articles is done by volunteers, but I can think of many things that need payment:
1) you have to pay the webmasters, PR specialists, administration workers etc., who make it possible for us to edit
2) there are all the servers where Wikipedia is saved - each of the articles is saved in every historical copy, plus each article has a discussion page, there are tons of pages describing the tables, navigation boxes etc...
3) advertisement, legal issues, ...
4) even though we are volunteers, there is a possibility to participate on meetings of the community, which are payed by Wikipedia
So, I do not feel sad for not recieving anything :)
This man. This is my real teacher.
I salute you, Wizard of Wikipedia.
I wonder how many times he has changed "is" to "was" 10 minutes after a celebrity died.
Yes.
Find and replace, and Emails from news sources announcing deaths.
I had this guy as a teacher every year in high school
@@YoYo-xr3ew You should paste this on every comment here.
@@nr655321 scam
@tamabo I think a balance is necessary. There's alot of life and things that wouldn't get done without a mix of different types of ppl
@@TheWitchOvAgnesi why dont you help out? We all now have access to the same link, do your part
Did he let you cite his website
This man helped you through school more than teachers did
No wonder this generation is so stupid they listen to wikipedia and a fat slob in a basement over an educator
@@saiyanseeds5084 says the kid with the vegeta icon.....
Saiyan Seeds he works a government job but ok
@@saiyanseeds5084 because wikipedia has millions of pages of things that most teachers dont even know
@@lilgill7348 and that has done nothing for society or the education of the this generation coming adults there stupid can barely work anything unless it has a remote control or touch screen. They dont even know what rotary telephones are many dont even realize house phones exist. Wikipedia has done nothing
This man makes 0$ for helping humanity stay informed. While Kardashians making millions rotting the world.
calm down mr social revolutionary
“rotting the world” lol
Facts of our lives now😓
we live in a society
He works for free so people like Jimmy Wales can be multimillionaires, copy editing IS a paid job for most folks you know.
He seems like a really selfless and nice person. I wish I could have his spirit.
Who you are is a product of what you repeatedly do. You can be anything you want, I believe in you.
@@bobthabuilda1525 man shut up and let the person salute the wiz. You arent as influential as the wizard of wiki. So apply your own advice.
@@AV144K Why are you so offended by someone being kind and supportive of someone else?
@@AV144K Since I will apparently receive no answer, I just want to say that I hope whatever ruined your day and lead to you taking out your frustrations on me is resolved.
You can do anything you set your mind to as well, just as I said to the OP. I hope you find the fulfillment you seek. ❤️
@@AV144K someone found a roach in their cereal
The dude can probably win who wanna be a millionaire.
You mean write it lol
Aerohk to be 100 percent honest he could have some sort of algorithm that scans articles 24 hours a day while he jerks off
Ah yes. My favourite game show. "Who wanna be a millionaire".
Are you saying he finna be a millionaire if he goes on?
shiiyt i wanna be a millionaire dawg
Wouldn't this guy destroy all quiz shows ever?
Affirmative
Chuck Norris asks him for information on Martial Arts.
he will beat GOD himself
Oh god.. Your profile picture is more important than this video!!
Not really.
This guy has probably made more information accessible to humanity than anybody else in history. Sir, we salute you.
@@pie-sn3nd that never works and you know it. Stop commenting that
This guy and Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press ;) and maybe the people who ran the libraries at Alexandria or some place whatever. He's definitely in the running to be the number 1 guy.
The information was still acessible before him. Wikipedia isn't the only way to get internet information.
@@thorsten8790 *accessible
@@thorsten8790 Knowledge is mostly contained in books and books are almost always not freely accessible.
the teachers who criticise Wikipedia really do this guy a disservice,
idk about your teachers but my tutors only criticise the way your average student uses wikipedia, not wikipedia itself
I always got the feeling a lot of them were simply annoyed because we didn't have to go to the library to dig through books to find even basic information and could just google it.
well its a white christian dude controlling the world view given by most of the general information on the internet. so yeah theres that
hurr more biased sources behold the power of my white circular control of information. poo poo on you
@@RobotboyX2 As a teacher I'd agree with that. Wikipedia is great as a jumping off point - it can give you a skimming overview of a subject that you could then use as a foundation to pursue further (or not, if it's something you don't need to know in that much detail). That's the whole point of it, it's an encyclopedia, it was never meant to be truly in depth, just an overview, like every encyclopedia. So it's doing exactly what it set out to do, nothing wrong with that. Of course there are inaccuracies on it from time to time, but I've seen plenty of glaring errors in books too. I'd just caution against thinking that a Wikipedia article contains everything there is to know on a subject.
That’s literally insane to go to any Wikipedia page and have a 33% chance of it being edited by this guy
It's not true they have a team of editors who've been working for free ... See head to head Aljazeera when they interviewed the owner of Wikipedia.
He's probably just one of the editors
Has to be in English
@@Vanessa-el2le maybe he edits russian articles too. I don't know if he speaks russian
PLUS GENDER INEQUALITY AM I RIGHT?
@@MetalDetectingRussia watch at 1:58
He may run 33.3% of Wikipedia, but he only uses 1% of his power to do so.
Edit: god damn I’ve never got this many likes
Not even shaggy could withstand his full potential
@@andrew5744 ok thats 2 far
Lmfa9
@@jale5587 .05% too far
Haters Hangout Thanos in his human form, destiny still arrives
He is a hero. He does it for free because he believes knowledge should be free. Wish universities and colleges had the same thought as him
Capitalism says no lol
You are not entitled to $hit.
@@letshearit6219 lol, I'm entitled to my opinion, I don't need your permission to post something
@@gunngator588 You like free stuff, don't you?
Education is a right, schooling is a privilege
he somehow remind me of Samwell Tarly from Game of Thorns, a noble respectful seeking knowledge man.
Very serious here. I kept thinking he reminded me of someone and couldn't figure it out! Yeeeesssss!
was looking for this comment) a bit surprised this is not top-3 comment
He reminds me of Lester Crest from GTA V. (Not intended to mock him) They are both geniuses.
I kept on thinking the same while watching this .
This guy is a god damned hero. Wikipedia is one of the greatest contributions to humanity that we've produced in the 21st century.
d0lvl0 yet we cant cite it for essays etc due to it being unreliable
@@cams.3287 😂😂😂😂so true
history is unreliable too ( for solid facts) because it change and we find more info on it or the school are just changing it or don’t tell the full story like Columbus and were taught that he was the first person to find Americans and he was alright guy but later grades you what he did to the south Indes, it’s only 100% true if you were there with your own eyes because people who were there can lie, miss commutation or have to kinda fill it in or if it’s war to busy fighting etc.
Bikko sorry that you didn’t understand me the first time. the teachers wont allow us to use this as a reliable site to cite for our assigned papers! it absurd but at the same time i understand their reasoning.
@@cams.3287 if you scroll down on wiki sites, there are sources. Wikipedia is objectively at least as reliable as any other articles that has sources.
This guy did something incredibly difficult and useful TRULY FOR FREE, without ANY AGENDA. He should be celebrated as a national hero!
*International hero
Peter “you’re a hero! You post definitions of words!!
Mr Phuckit Exactly...?
@@ericbattista9341 Oh wow, you learned how to trivialize an achievement. You're on par with middle schoolers. Clearly you don't value knowledge and its obvious importance and you proved so with such an ignorant comment.
How do you know there is no agenda?
I like how they tried to shoe horn gender politics in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with gender. That guy is amazing. CBS is a joke.
What's wrong with mentioning that statistic? That's something I've always wondered about as well. Why don't they have more articles about women?
@@chris2kostya because a lot less women deserve an article lol...
It seems to be something this guy you say is amazing cares about as well. If we want things to change at a societal level these are things we need to talk about often. Do you have an issue with more women having articles written about them? Do you somehow feel threatened by the mere statistic being brought up? I really don't understand why people get offended whenever any topics of gender discrepancies comes up.
@@oliverlaroche3542 Slow applause, my man!
Here's an idea how about articles about notable people and not because of their genitals. You're 100% correct CBS = joke.
This dude could win on "Who wants to be a millionaire" anytime.
Hes probably banned from the show
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need
and the hero we have
No one is concerned that some fedora living at home is the one responsible for 1/3 of the content you see on WikiPedia? That doesn't undermine its credibility at all?
@@melbatoast667 Well there are many languages and he sure cant speak all languages. And the video said he edited a third of english content. Im not english and also Wikipedia is always being corrected.
Careful, he's a hero.
What is your profile picture? I've been seeing it everywhere and I want to know more.
Sosic look up maximillianmus
Oh yeah yeah
@@sosic172 A tip for the next time you don't know an image: save the image or find a usable link to said image and then go to images.google.com (otherwise the "search by image" icon won't pop up), then use aforementioned search by image option (icon in the search bar on Google Images), then after that simply upload the file or provide the link and hit enter. Very handy if you have seen an image before but not know the history or story behind it.
@@sosic172 I thought it was terminator
Let me put it this way!
Maybe 80% of English users of Wikipedia have read something by him.
That makes him the most read editor/author on the planet
Sadly its probably the Bible or the Qur'an
@@timdehaan629 Yeah maybe :D
Kaas Boer Who’s the author of the Bible? He said the most read author not book
@@marcd7332
Guy Pseudonym The Bible says that, but it was most likely written by multiple men under a very short time.
This dude is way too underappreciated by society.
Carefully, he’s a hero.
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This dude saved my school year a couple times
Neck Pepe yeah the good ol fashion copy and paste the entire article
Seems odd,Wikipedia has never helped me mostly slader and Quizlet
So much respect to this guy. All for free too. Something you won't see much of now a days. Hats of too you my man keep it up
Well he lives with his parents, so probably doesn't need to worry about rent or mortgage payments, so he doesn't seem as urgently pressed as most of us would be to equate his valuable time contributions with monetary compensation.
But hey, if he had been earning $20/hour, 3 hours a day, for the last 18 years he's been doing this... he'd have an extra $394k in his pocket.
@@angelamarie341 Shining a light against ignorance is worth so much more.
The interviewer is the perfect personification of America.
How much money do you make?
None.
Why on Earth would you ever do anything without trying to make a profit from someone else!?
Oh child. It's rather simple, without making any money you have to rely on someone else to pay for your stuff, like living with your parents.... which he does. If you don't make any money from the thing you do. Dedicating 3 hours a day to something after you finish your day job means you have a great interest in it for some reason, and it is interesting to know what drives him to keep on editing and making articles.
And near the end he says 'he ACTUALLY has friends'!
What a harsh thing say!
No, I wouldn’t blame the interviewer I think he does a great job bringing attention to him. He probably already knew he made no money before he asked the question. He merely wanted highlight his altruistic intentions.
Not really, I think they have briefings on that and it could’ve been emphasised on how he does it for free. Anyways, we all do need money.
@@Dofri98 he is also a customs agent
The most underrated human alive
This isnt even his final form.
he only tapped into 1% of his power
the final form of a human is a skeletton...
You're right, this isn't his final form -- because he's still making revisions.
Yeah let's see what happens when he finally moves out of the basement
@@mattihaapoja8203 aww jealous much?
can we make a gofundme page for this dude just to pay him back.
Nice idea. Given how much he has contributed it would be nice to give him something back. Be it gofundme or Patreon or whatever.
He has a bang en olufsen monitor so I assume that he have enough money
He works for the government and lives rent free...he has $$$
Zach Dworsky I don’t think he’d want to payed honestly otherwise he would’ve stopped doing this a long time ago, plus he has a good government job, so he is probably doing quite good financially.
Have you donated to wikipedia? That's a place to start...
What a legend
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Yo, Wikipedia seriously needs to give this guy something; a new computer, or free coffee, or those carpal tunnel wrist guards...
He probably wouldn't be happy if he got paid since that would ruin the charm. He did say that he is fascinated by the fact that it's free.
@@silvernode totally. i just mean as a nice gesture from Wikipedia, as a "Thank You". Give him some of those glasses that protect your eyes for ppl who stare at screens all day! Something! lol
Maybe a physical certificate from Wikipedia or award like UA-cam Diamond thing.
They could give him a job.
Jimmy Wales needs that money though.
What a cool guy, imagine if every habitant on earth were this dedicated and generous, this will be a better place
Nah, we need this balance.
You mean people that like to sit there and force their lies across the web? Nah we do not need more white knights
But we need to reproduce
@@Dead_Goat I bet you contribute a lot to society eh?
AMEN LUCIANO
That's a service to mankind, it's important to acknowlege people like him, who do amazing stuff for passion.
F. OPE that's the beauty of the Jewish soul, the thrive to bring candle into a dark room.
Darkness in physics is explained as absence of light.
Service to mankind to promote biased information that you support 😕
This man indirectly did millions of people’s homework
Thank you Steven for your service to humanity. God bless.
Don't take the internet too seriously Stfu. He did this to help people. It’s more than just pushing buttons on a keyboard. Bet you don’t even volunteer.
more info about him: everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/steven-pruitt-ser-amantio-di-nicolao/
I thank him so much. He's sacrificing his fingers from all that typing by increasing his risk of athritis or carpel tunnel.
Don't take the internet too seriously You did nothing to your life too when you said that. You're just as salty as the deep sea salt
Could have served himself a little better judging by the fact that he still lives in his parents basement at god knows what age
This man helped all of us at one point let’s be honest
WorldRecordEggo not really. Wikipedia has a lot of false information. Which is why I do not use it
I use it 2 times a day
@@perserving1495 Because it has a lot of false information we need people like him, who do proper research and edit Wikipedia pages. If you look for false information, you will find the internet is full of it. Wikipedia is very "clean" in comparison.
nice millions of articles about inventions, history, engineering, people, food classification, cloth types and airplane sizes so which topic we are going to discuss why 15% of articles are about women wow now there is wikipedia gender gap. What kind of ignorant thing is this.
@@perserving1495 Encyclopedias get updated quite frequently. Furthermore, not all wikipedia pages are edited equally. I remember watching an older documentary in the early 2000s that described the Tyrannosaurus as a lone hunter, because that's what scientists' research found to be true for decades on end. New research currently debunks that and defines the extinct species as haven been species that lived in groups. My point is information is always changing. How we understand science, history and culture is always changing and wikipedia is one of the worlds most accessible databases on information. The information is cited the vast majority of the time and provides knowledge that people in previous centuries would have never been able to obtain. Just because it's written in a book doesn't make it true. Anyone can write a book, Alex Jones, a man who makes stuff up for a living has written a book. Wikipedia is not so much as a definite source as it is a compilation of human thought and discovery.
His control over English language is extra ordinary. He is a brilliant man.
He’s a very fat man
Both of your statements are correct
SooCrazy o_0 He would probably appreciate the accuracy
"WiKiPEdIa iSNt a gOOd SoUrCE.."
DUH you cant specifically use "WIKIPEDIA" as a source. lol THERE ARE SOURCES AT THE BOTTOM. LEARN HOW TO READ THOSE.
J R You can actually.
Amen.
True. Their bibliographies are superb. I use them all the time
J R You mean all those broken urls at the bottom? 😏
Yeah I have to agree with the other user who mentioned it but those URLs in bottom don't work. It looks legit but once you actually go down and look into it than it kinda eh.
He seems like a very decent guy, and editing a third of pages on Wikipedia is no mean feat. Students, scholars and the general public should be and is grateful for his work.
Owais Sayani um students can’t use Wikipedia. It’s not a reliable source!
@@Solmom03 exactly
I'm a medical student and my life wouldn't be the same without Wiki, I'm so grateful!!!
And people who say "Wiki isn't a good source" simply don't read that much
@@Solmom03 They can use the sources that Wikipedia uses and lists on their pages ;)
@@Solmom03 u don't source directly from wiki u dumdumb, u source from the ref list in the bottom of the articles.
You may not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like
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Peak human, not male
If he could apply some knowledge to his physical well-being.
Qwirnn ooh we are still doing that??
Did you just assume his gender?
It's the real-life Samwell Tarly from GoT!
This dude is so cultured and well-spoken. All scholars and historians should aspire to be this man.
Nathan Seper ...I had a dear neighbor that became a friend, back in 1988....he died in 2003. This man reminds me of a younger version of JG.
He's helped thousands, if not millions of students pass their classes.
Zara Kayn facts affff
I remember him, he was my teacher from 1st to 12th grade.
I get it.
@@ForumArcade I didn't get it until you said I get it.
Fressh 😂
HE RAPED ME.
@@krmunoz2169 I thought I was the only one lol
working class hero! Growing up, I remember how expensive encyclopedias were, his contribution to humanity is inspiring! Thank you sir!
Wikipedia can no longer be trusted. This is what the ceo of Wikipedia said. Imagine believing something random editors say on a side
Strange to use Marxist language here. I am a Wikipedia editor but don't identify with Marxist values
This man holds society up.
@THE ACOUSTIC CAGE you're fun
this guy helped 50%+ of students in the US, true hero
More like 99%
Not just US
In the world 🌎 ***
@@hassannouh98 Americans think the world = the US lol
I'm from Germany and to be honest I always read English articles just because of this guy ;)
I know Wikipedia is ran by donations, but he should be paid for his work!!! 1/3 of all posts?!?!?! OMG.... at least 100k a year!!
Zombie Prodigy eso is dead
Maybe we should all donate to him.
Here is the official Gofundme: www.gofundme.com/steven-pruitt-quotthe-wizard-of-wikipediaquot-support
Ser Amantio, thank you for your incredible contribution. Wikipedia is my morning newspaper, I spend at least 1 hour every day reading about lots of different stuff on Wikipedia, and I'm sure you've written a big part of what I've read and loved.
Are you going to edit?
Lol “He actually does have friends”
but that’s just honestly not a cool little back and forth they had there. Nothing about this story gave any indication that he has no friends apart from the stereotype of a middle aged man who lives at his parents home and spends time on his computer.... but it’s 3 hours a day. Not 18. He doesn’t live in a hole. Like he’s clearly a really nice guy and they kinda just gave him that super nonchalant negative comment
ianericson i agree they were kind of rude, smuggly laughing at the and saying “hes a character!”
Extremely rude and out of touch. Not surprising though
And he has a job too
I spend 4 hours a day on wiki typically
What do u expect from liberals. If you have dark skin you are perpetually a misunderstood victim. If you have light skin (i.e. white, Asian) you are forever a pathetic loser.
The man who shaped up my homework, literally.
next homework assignment: look up the definition of "literally"
I bet he would do well on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire
LosJulbas stolen comment
I'm really not proud of you ,you stole that comment you should be ashamed of yourself
@@madjaster9620 thanks for arresting criminals you're a hero
But, as the video shows, he doesn't want to be :)
I was thinking jeopardy, but yeah any trivia based game show!
That dude has a good ASMR voice. I want him to teach me ancient history as I fall asleep
WikipediaSMR
He sounds like Rich Evans from Redlettermedia.
Lets all give him 3 dollars
I'm not even kidding, I think should set up a GoFundMe page for him, to get him more resources.
@@ramuthra1 do it and share the link.. Awesome idea..
do it
Ryan go do it
Someone start it already.
This man deserves much respect. He truly cares about people and the quality of life.
Why doesnt wikipedia hire him or sponsor him wtf
Because the site itself runs on donations - They can’t afford to sponsor editors and it isn’t fair to sponsor editors on a site that is based on good will. Microsoft tried to make a Wikipedia-like site while paying millions of dollars to professionals and professors but it failed miserably. You might wanna read about it a little, it’s fairly interesting really :)
@@ElihuNavon Do they have an article about it on Wikipedia?
@@combatenthusiast6297 That's where I'm heading to read up on it haha
ghostcheddar maybe hes too smart to make an enormous profit off him
ghostcheddar look at him. I’m suprised ppl allow notre Dame out of his house let alone have a job
I love the story here but this title is very misleading. He is not "behind a third of what's on Wikipedia", he created 35,000 articles, representing about 0.5% of all articles, and has edited on a third of the pages. Just call him Wikipedia's top editor.
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Actually lol’d.
Crowdfund some $ for this dude.
Why doesn't he just get his own website
Here it is: www.gofundme.com/steven-pruitt-quotthe-wizard-of-wikipediaquot-support
Yes exactly. Get this guy some dual monitors, maybe quadruple monitors and perhaps a few of those vertical standing ones that radiologists use. Get him one of those high tech mesh mechanical skeleton looking office chairs. Renovate his parent's house to include his own personal library. Get him one of those Minority Report user interfaces where he uses his hands to make things bigger and smaller, and bigger again. Unlock and maximize this man's potential!
@@uItimatewarrior and the cure for midgetism.
@@hi-filuggage13 Awesome, did you just make that?
*If everyone reading this were to donate $3, then Wikipedia would be thriving for years to come.*
I mean... *Its less then the cost of a cup of coffee*
SweatyBooch420 i didnt read this
I read this but not going to donate
Donate your money to WIkipedia today, so they can make people work for them, for free, for ever
Knowing that it pays that African lady to be a Vice President, and doesn’t pay Steven, I think I’ll skip the donation. In fact you can stick it right up your a$$!
gofundme.com/StevenPruitts
Funny how so many people in the comments are pro-Steven but anti-women, yet Steven is pro-women.
i'm confused as to where the thousands of dislikes are coming from, this man is doing an incredible thing. sharing a wealth of information with virtually everyone on the internet, because he simply likes to do it? he deserves the nobel peace prize, so much respect.
propaganda
ua-cam.com/video/iCQdu4uZK9g/v-deo.html
They tried to shove in gender politics in a story that has absolutely nothing to do with gender.
@@ThePontus1000 he respects whamen
Probably teachers.
How dare you compare him with Kardashians?
Haven't you heard? Kardashians are the gold standard of erudition for today's America.
And Trump
America ruins everything.
Well, i mean. That's how they stay up and relevant, people bitching about them and talking about them nonstop, so it's really all y'all that got their family there
@@andrewzcolvin what? trump isnt an "enemy of democracy" or "threat to free knowledge"
Man, it's nice of this news to get small time people like the Kardashians some exposure with the Wikipedia Wizard
I want one of my three dollars to go to him
as a wikipedia editor, i just want to say that the title is VERY misleading.
pruitt has edited 1/3 of all articles, but he has absolutely not written 1/3 of wikipedia.
in reality, most of his edits are changes to categories, the little things at the very bottom of the page.
every wikipedia editor have really only written an exceptionally small amount of it, but its the teamwork that comes together to actually do something good
Judging by your avatar I take it you're one of the few Wikipedia editors left that hasn't yet sold his soul to the far-left version of Moloch.
He protecc
He attacc
But most importantly
He edit bacc
😂😂
lol nice profile pic... you might want to replace Woodley with Cejudo now
He doesn’t protecc or attacc tho? This doesn’t make sense, only trying to juice an overused meme on something that is irrelevant to the topic
@@turtul4258 He proteccs wikipedia from false information and he attaccs ignorance.
😒 I just want to meet the man who's behind that third of whats never on Wikipedia..
When teachers say Wikipedia isn't a good source but encourage using outdated books
Money talks.
"iT cAN bE eDItEd bY aNYoNe" yea thats the point
Old and verified information is better than new unverified information
@@Ahoto_papa_bi you know Wikipedia has sources, right? If you don't believe something, you can always check using the INCLUDED SOURCES.
@@StudioCluiss yes that's the point, it can be edited by anyone & quality control exists, though it's evolving. That's why wiki is 100x larger than the largest stupid encyclopedia.
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“Living with his parents…”
That’s all we needed to hear.
The 5th most visited site was pornhub so they didnt say it.
It's actually not even top 10.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_websites
@@MqxwellThat article was edited by him.
@@suluayran121 What would he have against pornhub lol
it's currently #27 on Alexa
And I'm a large contributer to that particular website
Not all heroes wear capes
true
hey im a big fan
And not all man who are called hero are actually hero's. Some of these man are propaganda pushers who are called hero for propaganda reasons.
some wear Maga hats
@@emperorninja1965 Those were idiots who helped Trump give Pisrael anything they wanted and who stabbed the US citizens in the back. Like I said before, not everyone who is called a hero is an actual hero, many (like you) are just zionazi propaganda spewers.
I thought this was an onion video after I read the title lol
Fuhq Boi no it sounds like something they’d make
and remember, he is from virginia
I sometimes think an onion video is real until I look it's from onion
I thought this was me until I read the user name.
Mugi!
How is it even possible I did not know this guy until today while every shthead around the corner gets medial attention? Insane.
I'm grateful for what you have done
This man is civilized.
This man doing more for education than the federal government.
Dilly Billy for real man
forreal, he's generating invaluable value for humankind
Preach bro!
Lowkey
I'm conflicted. I want to give this guy a biggest thumbs up possible, but give CBS a thumbs down for them twisting the narrative unnecessarily into a gender issue.
Preach brother.
How exactly is it "twisted"? It's relevant and it's something he's actively working on - so obviously cares about too. The fact so many of you get upset at the mere mention of equality shows exactly why this kind of thing needs to be covered...
From what I've read about him he's actively working in gender equality programs through articles in Wikipedia to fight gender bias. So maybe it's actually you who's twisting the facts to make it look like they're making a feminist rally from nowhere when it's actually true what they say.
the internet is biased against women because it's filled with women-hating virgins / incels who aren't adored by women because they spend all their time screwing around on the internet, a self-fulfilling prophecy
It's not twisting the narrative. He asked to talk about it and he's a big proponent of it. Information shouldn't be limited based on gender.
Me: "Huh this guy has devoted his entire life to WIkipedia... and he looks a bit funny... but I bet he's pretty normal"
Video: 0:58
ZimoNitrome I cackled
Im screaming
Audibly laughing
lmfao
Best comment
Wow he’s such a great guy. I’ve learned a lot from Wikipedia.
There's lots of fake stuff on there as well
@@cabbagerollsandcoffee yeah man and people will swear wiki is a good source
I can seriously say that for myself and others born after 97 that Wikipedia has not only helped me with millions of school related things, but also any event/thing that you are curious about. Just type it in and boom everything you ever needed to know about anything. What a world we live in folks
You're older then that joe Rogan
1996 too
This man helped every student worldwide, without any greed and only for the sake of sharing knowledge.
Also the hardwork he does in research and summarizing it to detail is phenomenal
He is the boss of Wikipedia
Jenova Izq
That’s How maffia works
Amazing person, horrible video. not everything has to be about forced politics.
BrandonTheFish Stfu betaboy. Name one way women aren't equal in the eyes of federal law.
White men have no scholarships, are more likely to commit suicide, are more likely to die of a drug overdose, are more likely to join the military and die in war, and are the least taken care of group when it comes to social amenities.
So please. Explain how women have it badly.
By the way. If you think chivalry is considered offensive, then become anhero and save us all.
BrandonTheFish soyboy
agreed
BrandonTheFish BrandonTheFish I bet your just a beta male who plays dnd and always role plays as a white knight at useless protest for women rights.
@@Notthatguyjustsomeguy "Women are queens!"
- You
Wow, what a god. But doesn't he look a little like Lester from GTA?
He does!
@abbesnabbe ..damn you.. I'm here like looking through comments happy that people genuinely respecting this guys hard work and your comment pops up has me cracking up... lol so true though
Yup
Lester’s IQ < Steven’s IQ
sounds like him too
Why isn't his name in the title or the description?? People should know his name
His real name is Steven Pruitt. You can check out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pruitt
Just recently I realized just how amazing Wikipedia is and their mission to make information free to all. Much respect to the founders and volunteers.