Steven Pruitt

"What can we unlock from the libraries? What can we make accessible? We’re getting to define who belongs in the greater canon of knowledge. Here we are, a bunch of people on the internet, redesigning the canon."

"My interests are maybe not the most ordinary, but I have them, and I follow them."

"You don’t get numbers like mine without being a bit obsessive. I probably edit a bit more when I should be cleaning my room."

"I’m not sure I believed the ‘anyone can edit’ part of it until I became part of 'everyone'."

"I have my moments, I think everyone does. But then I look back on some of the articles I’ve written […] and it feels good. That wonderful feeling of having made something useful. That’s what keeps me going, often as not."

"The act of creating content is more codified than it was [when Wikipedia started] and I think ultimately it makes it less friendly for novice users. For the self-guided editor, it’s not as easy as it was for me."

"Who belongs in the encyclopedia? Who has a seat at the table? We’re figuring these questions out as we’re going, but we’re doing it in such a way that it becomes available to the rest of the world...It’s incredible to me to think about that. That’s what academia should have been all along."