If you have not learned yet, Wikipedia's editors are volunteers and do not receive compensation for their hard work. Therefore, the numbers of editors, reading over Wikipedia pages and looking for mismatches in information, is dwindling extremely quick. Luckily for us, 30 year old Justin Knapp's life revolves around editing Wikipedia. Recently, Knapp hit the milestone of having edited 1,000,000 Wikipedia pages! The truth is he has not received a cent for it (as I said, it is completely volunteer work). Mr. Knapp deserves an award for keeping our greatest source for information honest. Wikipedia is the 6th most viewed website in entire world and for good reason. Mr. Knapp, on behalf of the entire World Wide Web, I salute your incredible efforts. (link to article below)
http://gizmodo.com/5903743/seven-years-one-million-edits-zero-dollars-wikipedias-flat-broke-superstar-editor
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