Steven Pruitt
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Person
- Born
- 1984-04-17
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,734x
- Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’ networks
· 1998 · cited 33,706x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,840x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,469x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,781x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1984-04-17 ) April 17, 1984 (age 42) , San Antonio , Texas, U.S.
- Education
- College of William & Mary ( BA )
- Years active
- 2004–present
- Known for
- Most edits on English Wikipedia
- Honors
- Time ' s "The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet" (2017)
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Key dates
- Born
- 17 April 1984
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Steven
- Family name
- Pruitt
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Antonio
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Steven Pruitt - Depths of Wikipedia DC - 2022-05-27 (cropped).jpg
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Steven Pruitt (/ˈpruːɪt/ PROO-it; born April 17, 1984), known online as Ser Amantio di Nicolao, is an American Wikipedia editor and administrator with the largest number of edits made to the English Wikipedia, at over 6 million, having edited at least a third of its articles. Pruitt first began editing Wikipedia in 2004. He has also created more than 33,000 Wikipedia articles. Pruitt was named as one of the 25 most important influencers on the Internet by Time magazine in 2017.
Pruitt's pseudonym is a reference to a minor character in Giacomo Puccini's 1918 opera Gianni Schicchi. He has stated that he aims to fight gender bias on Wikipedia, promoting the inclusion of women via Women in Red, a WikiProject.