Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival

This is a rough, self-administered list of Wikipedians in order of arrival. The list exists only to satisfy general Wikipedian interest. This list is not intended to create some sort of hierarchy. In other words, we Wikipedians abhor the idea that the amount of time spent working on this website is any sort of indication of how well one can write an encyclopedia article. Indeed, we distinguish ourselves by our ability to write good articles, which is what really matters. We ought to do our best to underemphasize seniority, which can be used, often illegitimately, as a way of deciding who to accord how much respect. Of course, sometimes how long someone has been here does bear on, for example, how well they understand Wikipedia policy and why Wikipedia works as it does. But it doesn't bear on much else.

If you add yourself here, please make sure you also do so on the alphabetical listing on Wikipedians.

Table of contents 1 June 2003 2 May 2003 3 April 2003 4 March 2003 5 February 2003 6 January 2003 7 December 2002 8 November 2002 9 October 2002 10 September 2002 11 August 2002 12 July 2002 13 June 2002 14 April 2002 15 March 2002 16 February 2002 17 January 2002 18 December 2001 19 November 2001 20 October 2001 21 September 2001 22 August 2001 23 July 2001 24 May 2001 25 April 2001 26 March 2001 27 February 2001 28 January 2001 29 Some unspecified time during 2001

June 2003

• Timwi
• Len Bounds of Salem Oregon as user named Dmsar.

May 2003

• UsagiYojimbo

April 2003

• Alex756
• TimmyD -- I'll be probably working through Computers, Gaming, and whatever else I can get my hands on. This is a very fascinating place!
• JimRegan
• Rotem Dan -- Had some anonymous contributions at the end of march, discovered wikipedia much earlier (but didn't understand what is a wiki back then)
• Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick -- April 14, anonymously on the 13th. (Had been reading earlier, and maybe done a newbie test or a few before as well, honestly don't remember.) First page knowingly read: Rhazes
• john
• Lou Imholt Otherwise known as LouI.

March 2003

• Matt Knox
• Brian Smithson
• Poor Yorick
• Zannah
• kylet

February 2003

• Hyungjin Ahn
• Kingturtle February 27
• Notheruser (Feb. 19)
• jimfbleak (Feb 3)

January 2003

• Ahoerstemeier
• Angela
• Bagpuss
• goatasaur -- (Dredg was my first edit and first new article, 1/22/2003)
• LittleDan, under the name User:Anonymous56789, but forced to change it.
• Minesweeper
• Nanobug
• Paddu
• Tiles

December 2002

• sannse
• I am Jack's username Viva XHTML and rfc 3339, viva!

• Zanimum
• IZAK (The Baal teshuva movement).
• TakuyaMurata
• Mic
• Tannin
• Wapcaplet. Time elapsed from first edit to addiction: 35 seconds.
• Muppet. Though I then vanished until May 2003. I blame work.

November 2002

• Arvindn
• Brian Sayrs: I'm mostly going to involve myself in government entries, but don't be surprised when I edit chemistry, space or computer articles!
• llywrch -- I guess I'm addicted; I even make small changes between phone calls under an IP number from work. At least I'm getting help for my spelling mistakes here.
• Oliver Pereira - first edit and first new article 04 Nov 2002; registered 08 Nov 2002
• Usedbook
• Dante Alighieri - Nov 12, 2002

October 2002

• cprompt First edit: October 31, 2002
• David Yenoki First new entry for October 2002!
• AdSR, with a couple of anonymous contributions.
• Nick Tarasen or nwt, who finds this marvelous.
• Bogdan Stanciu, who is impressed but has little spare time
• Chris Said phenomenal, my new hobby
• Tubby
• Tim Starling
• John Owens A few anons sometime before Oct. 8
• pit

September 2002

• MB - 05:42 5 Sep 2002
• Chuq Wow, first one of Sep '02!
• Khendon
• Infrogmation - first ran into Wikipedia via Google a bit earlier, but started contributing regularly in September
• Lir -- Tom Tomorrow mentioned wikipedia on his blog
• Cordyph
• Sam - sometime around here.
• watcher652 - Sept 27
• rbrwr
• quintessent
• Patrick
• Lorenzarius - (Sept 25)
• Tuf-Kat
• Antonio Sex Party Martin
• User:OlofE
• Ram-Man

August 2002

• Kerberos
• David Spector - Feel like an oldie, so at home am I
• isis
• NetEsq
• metz2000
• b4hand, earlier anonymous contributions
• Jaknouse - on August 1st; as of this posting, am the 137th hardest-working Wikipedian!
• Kirjtc2
• Hephaestos
• Mintguy - I wish I could remember what it was that brought me here.
• Fonzy, August 4. Found it on google.

July 2002

• Kurt Forstner aka KF
• Patrick Tufts (Zippy) - Net oldbie, Wiki newbie
• K.lee 2 July
• Valhalla - begin of July, or maybe end of June.

June 2002

• Perique des Palottes, some earlier anonymous contributions.

April 2002

• Eric Hanson April 9th
• Dan Rose April 4th
• Karen Johnson - first contributed April 4 - Extreme Newbie!
• Miguel Carrión April 7th -- so which is it, Miguel, Apr 6 or Apr 7?
• Ktsquare - can't recall, someday in mid April.
• Aldie - April 6th seems to be my first logged in edit, although I made a few anonymously through February/March.

March 2002

• Deb
• Drew Thomas (March 1st, but first contributed in February)
• Enchanter
• Toby Bartels aka Toby (March 19)
• Anthere
• user:Vanderesch First contribution with article on Neem. More followed

February 2002

• JeLuF (about February 26)
• pgdudda (February 25, with earlier anonymous contributions.)
• Jani Melik aka XJamRastafire (February 23)
• Oliver Menge (Feb. 15)
• Eanorel
• Danny (first article, some earlier, anonymous contributions before that)

January 2002

• Olof
• Georg Muntingh
• Mark Ryan
• James
• Piotr Gasiorowski
• maveric149
• Pingos
• Aidan Elliott-McCrea
• Luis Oliveira
• Marj Tiefert
• Tarquin
• Brion Vibber
• Zisa

December 2001

• Slrubenstein
• Tuxisuau
• Edgar
• David Parker (Dec. 12)
• little_guru
• SimonP (from segment in New York Times Magazine[?])

November 2001

• Jzcool
• Xaonon
• Goochelaar
• Chenyu
• Joel Schlosberg

October 2001

• Paul Melville Austin
• the Epopt
• Dreamyshade (at least that's when I first contributed)
• The Anome

September 2001

• Chuck Smith (discovered in March, started contributing now)
• Tsja
• JHK
• Eob (after reading the article in the New York Times, September 20)
• Bignose

August 2001

• sodium sometime in august.
• LC
• MichaelTinkler (it was before school started...)
• Zundark (on 6th or 7th, not sure which)
• Anatoly Vorobey (arrived probably during the slashdotting, first contribution early August)
• BenBaker (2nd wave of slashdotting, 1st or 2nd, I think.)
• Alan Millar the big slashdotting...

July 2001

• TwoOneTwo
• The Cunctator (July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting)
• AxelBoldt (July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting)
• BrantEaton (July 26, Slashdot effect was my first article!)
• Dmerrill, another one from the Slashdotting
• James F., yet another Slashdotter (though the account is newer)
• Tim Goodwin (guess which well-known blog appears on my Personal Toolbar)
• Simon J Kissane (thinks he arrived just before slashdotting)
• Kowloonese as anonymous 24.4.254.xxx et al. (since first week of July, 2001)

May 2001

• Mjausson (based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001)
• Wathiik (based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001)
• LA2 (based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001)
• sjc
• Tim Chambers

April 2001

• Koyaanis Qatsi (based on the revision history of Bahrain. Followed over from a comment on slashdot)

March 2001

• Stephen Gilbert
• Rob Salzman (is he still around?) (yes - but cannot login as Rob Salzman - so am now justrob)
• Geronimo Jones (still active Dec 2001, but i rarely sign)
• Mathijs read about it in the newspaper
• Erdem Tüzün
• Andre Engels
• Malcolm Farmer - after a slashdotting. Every other article back then was either an Atlas Shrugged or a Larry Sanger philosophy article. How far it's come since then...
• Phil Bordelon I'd be lying if I remembered why I came here originally; I hacked a bit on some Settlers of Catan stuff, went back to lurk mode, and only recently have started to really edit again.

February 2001

• Lee Daniel Crocker
• BryceHarrington

January 2001

• WojPob
• AstroNomer
• Josh Grosse
• AyeSpy
• RoseParks

Some unspecified time during 2001

• ManningBartlett
• Larry Sanger
• Jimbo Wales