User:Bodnotbod

This Wikipedian is deceased. His user page is preserved here in his memory.

My edits on other projects: Meta (fundraising) ~ Foundation Strategy

Pages to use as watchlists: MPs ~ EngPeeps ~ ScotPeeps ~ Gandhi ~ BBC ~ Guardian ~ Google ~ Films ~ Books (influential) ~ Books (Booker) ~ RFC ~ OneK ~ FiveK+

SubPages: Notes / 1k / WWI / Sandbox / ToDo / Answers / Resources / Tools / Hist2Read / TabInfo

Talk2Me

Wikipedia: The Crack Cocaine of Copy Editing

As a contributor I've done various things, but at the moment I'm concentrating on keeping up with my watchlist.

High point of five years of editing was when David Quantick wrote to me and now uses our Wikipedia article, substantially written by me, as his official IMDB bio.

WankyStats™

I joined on April 28 2004

1,000 edits as of June 10 2004

2,000 edits as of August 18 2004

3,000 edits as of August 2005 which means it's taken me one year to do what had previously taken me 4 months.

4,000 edits as of October 25 2005

5,000 edits as of July 2 2008. I have been tardy.

6,000 edits as of November 2008.

7,000 edits as of July 2009.

8,000 edits as of July 2010 (although I did a ton more on the Strategy wiki this year).

9,000 edits as of September 2010 (lots of welcoming users),(gives an average of about 1,500 contributions a year).

10,000 edits as of January 2010.

11,000 edits as of September 2011 (welcomes and warnings).

12,000 edits as of December 2016 - 50.81% in the mainspace.

Userboxes

This user lives in England.

This user is from London.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 20 years, 6 months and 14 days.

12,000+

This user has made more than 12,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This editor is an Experienced Editor and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

This user tries to do the right thing. If they make a mistake, please let them know.

Strat

This user contributes to
Wikimedia Strategy

This user uses Wikipedia as a primary point of reference.

This user is a member of
the Guild of Copy Editors.

This user has visited 10 of the 50 United States.

10

This user is interested in politics.

This user is a pessimist.

Ø

This user is a recluse.

This user is a secular humanist.

wise

This user is interested in Bodhisattva.

This user is an atheist.

This user is autodidactic.

This user enjoys reading
The Signpost.

This user contributes using
Google Chrome.

As of August 8 2004 I was #664 in the list of main namespace editors and #482 on less discriminating editing terms [1]

As of August 29 2004 I was #627 (up 45) in the list of main namespace editors and #453 on less discriminating terms [2]

As of July 25, 2005 I was #1291 in the list of main namespace editors and #973 overall (there's 350,000 registered editors).

As of October 15, 2005 I was #1216 in the list of main namespace editors and #992 overall. Midtable obscurity

As of July 2, 2008 I was not in the top 4000 editors. The end of an era.

Check how Wanky I am right NOW!

WP Stats:

English Wikipedia reached a peak of just under 55,000 editors making 5 edits per month or more in 2007.
As of 2009 that was down to around 45,000. That's about the population of Christchurch, Dorset.
As of January 2010 [3]:
- 365 million unique visitors visited Wikimedia projects (all projects combined).
- Of those 189.9 million visited the English Wikipedia.
- 60.1% of the visitors to Wikimedia projects are estimated to come via Google searches.
- only 0.025% of visitors to Wikimedia projects are editors with more than 5 edits.
- For the English Wikipedia, only 0.021% of visitors have more than 5 edits.
- 5th in the list of most-visited websites in the world.