Ten years a Wikipedian
8 min readAug 29, 2018
Ten years ago today, I made my first edit on Wikipedia. I still remember what it was without even having to look it up, as it was so random and fun: I added the (awesome) Led Zeppelin song “Four Sticks” to the page “List of musical works in unusual time signatures”. I don’t remember what motivated me to make this edit. I suppose I had the same trajectory as many editors, visiting the site regularly and then realizing “Hey, I can edit this page…