The Person with the Most Wikipedia Articles Wins.
Garrett e-mailed me a story from AlterNet about the man with the most Wikipedia articles: Richard Farmbrough, Wikipedian for 39 months and an admin for 30.
"I am not actually obsessed with Wikipedia, despite appearances! If I am obsessed with anything, it is continuous improvement. I see Wikipedia as an example of this …"
Farmbrough shares a story about getting an encyclopedia as a boy and being inspired enough to start working on his own book of everything. He realize after a trip to his local library that writing such a book would be an enormous endeavor.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
The man with the most articles in Wikipedia is a little misleading. Consider the de minimis and sweat of the brow concepts in copyright law. Are minimal typographical corrections sufficient to create a copyright interest? I think not, based on the precedents.
He’s perhaps the person who’s achieved the highest ratio of edits per copyrighted piece of text.
Of course, like cleaning up court transcripts, what he doe is very useful. Merely not copyrightable, in general.