1. Steven Pruitt's pseudonym is a reference to a minor character in Giacomo Puccini's 1918 opera Gianni Schicchi.
13 Facts About Steven Pruitt
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Steven Pruitt has stated that he aims to fight gender bias on Wikipedia, promoting the inclusion of women via the Women in Red project.
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Steven Pruitt's mother emigrated from the Soviet Union following the loosening of the policy on Jewish migration under Leonid Brezhnev, while his father worked as a college professor in Virginia.
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Steven Pruitt has credited his love of knowledge to his mother's stories of growing up in the Soviet Union.
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In 2017, Steven Pruitt was a contractor for US Customs and Border Protection, where he worked with records and information.
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Steven Pruitt's first Wikipedia article was about his great-great-grandfather, Peter Francisco, a Portuguese-born American Revolutionary War hero known as the "Virginia Hercules".
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Steven Pruitt has created more than 33,000 Wikipedia articles, the seventh-highest tally out of any Wikipedia editor.
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Steven Pruitt identifies as an inclusionist, preferring to retain articles instead of deletion.
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Steven Pruitt considers himself a WikiGnome, a type of editor that makes small, behind-the-scenes edits.
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Steven Pruitt spends between three and four hours daily editing, with more on the weekends.
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Steven Pruitt made the one billionth edit on the English Wikipedia on January 13,2021, to the page "Death Breathing".
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Steven Pruitt was featured on CBS This Morning in January 2019.
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Steven Pruitt's focus on women artists, composers, and historical figures reflects his interest in shedding light on lesser-known and often overlooked subjects.