Ben Best
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This user has created 67 of Wikipedia's 6,845,464 articles.
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Approximately 90% of this user's total edits have been mainspace edits.
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This user has set foot in 6 continents of the world.
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/No_smoking_symbol.svg/40px-No_smoking_symbol.svg.png) | This user does not smoke. |
![Cannabis prohibited sign](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Antidope.png/40px-Antidope.png) | This user is drug-free. |
APL | This user can program in APL. |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Greek_lc_pi_icon.svg/45px-Greek_lc_pi_icon.svg.png) | This user knows by heart the first 40 digits in the decimal representation of pi. |
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Pi ≈ 3.1415926535897 932384626433832 7950288419716939 93751058209749445 9230781640628620 8998628034825342 11706798214808 6513282306647 09384460955 0582231725359 408128481117 450284102701938 52110555964 46229489 5493038196 44288109 7566593344612847564 823378678316527120190 91456485669 234603 8610454 3266482133936072 602491412737245870066063155881748 8152092096282925409171536 436789259036001 13305305488204 6652138414 6951941511609
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![{\displaystyle \sum }](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/f1d4e06539576633987e902f402ed46728d573b6) | This user is greater than the sum of his userboxes. |
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who/what?? | This user is unique just like everyone else. |
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I admit that when I first got involved in Wikipedia that there was much self-promotion associated with my contributions. This has diminished considerably -- or perhaps I have done as much self-promotion as I want to do -- and I am increasingly interested in building this wonderful on-line encyclopedia. I believe that Wikipedia will become the greatest encyclopedia ever created and will leave all others in the dust. It is a terrific resource and I love the way everyone can become involved, warts (vandals) and all. I still have selfish motives, but it is usually the selfish satisfaction I get from having done a good job and feeling that I have made a worthwhile contribution to Wikipedia. I get satisfaction from improvements large and small: major re-writes, reverting acts of vandalism and spelling corrections. I have learned to lengthen my fuse when changes are made which anger me, and I think I am becoming better at negotiating with goodwill and avoiding "revert wars". Nonetheless, I still have not figured-out how one becomes a Wikipedian involved in The Wikipedia Community [1].
I have a few contributions in Wiktionary, but I feel that this resource has a long way to go. I think it is harder for people to get motivated to create entries for Wiktionary, which is sad. But who has a special interest in words like "increase" and "embark"? I have created a number of new word entries in Wiktionary, but it is a massive undertaking to make that resource comparable to what we have with Wikipedia.