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I don’t get it- the title is totally incorrect. He hasn’t written a third of what’s on Wikipedia.

by ptest1 8y ago

yesenadam 8y ago
Well, to be fair, the title doesn't say he wrote it. Just that he's behind it. Which to me doesn't have any clear or even vague meaning. If someone asked, I couldn't tell them. But it is vaguely arguably true, I think. I've seen much worse.
lkbm 8y ago
I assume they're dividing his "almost 3 million edits" by the "more than 5.7 million articles" on en.wp. It's obviously extremely wrong, but their incentives aren't for being sticklers on accuracy. It's on being sensational.
- ptest1 8y ago
  Yeah, that makes sense. But it’s still wrong!
  - lkbm 8y ago
    Actually, to follow up on that, there've been a few articles about him, and on Quora[0], the author of a WaPo article[1] says "Of the site's nearly 5.7 million pages, Pruitt has edited a staggering one third." If this guy is correct, the edits are sufficiently spread across different articles for him to have touched 1/3 of them. Still obviously not the same as writing, but it puts the headline in a slightly less absurd light. [0] https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ser-Amantio-di-Nicolao-of-Wikipedia https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ser-Amantio-di-Nicolao-of-Wikip... [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-most-prolific-contributor-to-the-english-version-of-wikipedia/2018/10/02/a6497a74-9411-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-m...
StevePerkins 8y ago
CBS News. I don't even really notice sensationalized or misleading headlines so much these days, until they're pointed out to me. Perhaps this guy's contribution count represents one-third of a top-contributors list, and the author conflated that with "all of Wikipedia" out of laziness? Curious that "Steven Pruitt" (or any usernames that look like they might be owned by him) doesn't even show up on any of Wikipedia's own lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_article_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_...
- ahuibers 8y ago
  He is on those top-contributors lists. His username is "Ser Amantio di Nicolao" per article.
- basscomm 8y ago
  His username, Ser Amantio Di Nicolao, shows up on both of those lists.
wheelerwj 8y ago
yeah you're right, its not even a little bit accurate.

I don’t get it- the title is totally incorrect. He hasn’t written a third of what’s on Wikipedia.

by ptest1 8y ago

I don’t get it- the title is totally incorrect. He hasn’t written a third of what’s on Wikipedia.

Well, to be fair, the title doesn't say he wrote it. Just that he's behind it. Which to me doesn't have any clear or even vague meaning. If someone asked, I couldn't tell them. But it is vaguely arguably true, I think. I've seen much worse.

lkbm 8y ago

I assume they're dividing his "almost 3 million edits" by the "more than 5.7 million articles" on en.wp. It's obviously extremely wrong, but their incentives aren't for being sticklers on accuracy. It's on being sensational.

ptest1 8y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. But it’s still wrong!
- lkbm 8y ago
  Actually, to follow up on that, there've been a few articles about him, and on Quora[0], the author of a WaPo article[1] says "Of the site's nearly 5.7 million pages, Pruitt has edited a staggering one third." If this guy is correct, the edits are sufficiently spread across different articles for him to have touched 1/3 of them. Still obviously not the same as writing, but it puts the headline in a slightly less absurd light. [0] https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ser-Amantio-di-Nicolao-of-Wikipedia https://www.quora.com/Who-is-Ser-Amantio-di-Nicolao-of-Wikip... [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-most-prolific-contributor-to-the-english-version-of-wikipedia/2018/10/02/a6497a74-9411-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/meet-the-m...

StevePerkins 8y ago

CBS News. I don't even really notice sensationalized or misleading headlines so much these days, until they're pointed out to me. Perhaps this guy's contribution count represents one-third of a top-contributors list, and the author conflated that with "all of Wikipedia" out of laziness? Curious that "Steven Pruitt" (or any usernames that look like they might be owned by him) doesn't even show up on any of Wikipedia's own lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_article_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_by_number_of_edits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_...

ahuibers 8y ago
He is on those top-contributors lists. His username is "Ser Amantio di Nicolao" per article.
basscomm 8y ago
His username, Ser Amantio Di Nicolao, shows up on both of those lists.

wheelerwj 8y ago

yeah you're right, its not even a little bit accurate.