He is the guy who is in his room editing Wikipedia more than three million times.

Who is he And why is he doing this?

Aunt, how much knowledge does he have for the first time ever, I want to introduce you to Steven.

Hi, I'm Steven on.

I have made the largest number of edits to Wikipedia in the world.

This guy is single handedly responsible for million's off Wikipedia edits, and he lives here in a small town in Virginia USA, and he has a normal job and a normal life.

You see, 16 years ago, when Steven was still in university, he came across a small, unknown encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to.

So he had the idea to write about his great great grandfather, Peter Francisco, who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

E thought would be fun to write about Peter because I know about him and the family knew about him.

But he wasn't in any mainstream encyclopedias.

So Stephen wrote about his ancestor, published it.

And then from that one article, he got excited because now he could educate the world from his basement.

But I love about Wikipedia is that it allows you to cover topics not usually found in the mainstream Western media.

It allows anybody in the world to have their voice.

So he wrote another article and another and another.

And before he knew it, he's written thousands.

It started, and it was sort of like, Oh, well, that's cute.

And then when I started getting a lot of edits for it, there comes a point when it goes from that you tell people you have how many?

Wow.

So far, he has edited over three million and written more than 35 articles.

And the best part.

He's been doing this for 16 years, three hours a day, and he wasn't even paid a single dollar to do it.

Why am I doing it for free?

Um, to be perfectly honest, I've never been very good at making money.

My mother grew up in the Soviet Union, and from the stories that she's told me, I understand what it's like to live in a place where access to information is so heavily guarded.

If you make this information free, then the more people that have access to it do more with it, and it makes for a free or better and ultimately stronger society.

But the question on everyone's mind is, how accurate is Wikipedia?

And how can a guy like this help edit three million articles?

Well, turns out, Wikipedia is more accurate than you think.

For every article, every paragraph, even every sentence, someone like Steven has to fact check that it's true, like super fact check.

The potential is practically limitless for how you could redefine who is worthy of being included in the canon of knowledge.

You can create an entire ecosystem in that language online, and it's user generated.

The potential for where we are now is it's huge potential, for we could be in 100 years is massive in 500 years and even 1000 years out.

It's huge if you want to take the long view, which which I kind of like to do.

That's why Stephen Yes, this guy in the basement was chosen as one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine on.

I'm pretty sure never knew that before.

Stephen doesn't right based on feelings or hunches or guesses, he Onley rights based on facts, with multiple sources and lots off evidence.

I never depend on just one source.

I'll look through books, encyclopedia as websites.

Anything I could get my hands on the world needs to thank people like Steven who give up their free time and their family time just to share information to the world.

So a kid in a village 5000 miles away can open up their phone, load up Wikipedia and learn something new entirely for free people like Steven off the reason humanity is beautiful.

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