Curious, and not a little hopeful that I might find something (relatively) salacious, I looked up on the Wikipedia scanner what articles had been edited from my workplace. Perhaps, I thought, I’d discover there’s a bit more fire under the hood than I’ve given it credit for—a turbo charger, maybe. No such luck: only one page relevant to the company was edited from inside its walls, and the sections edited were of minor consequence, such as naming the company’s services. (There is a slight against its primary competitor, but I think that was original to the page.) My coworkers, in other words, are boring. Also: nerdy! Here’s a selection of what they’ve edited:
| Wikipedia Page | Number of Times Edited, etc. |
|---|---|
| Harry Connick Jr.. | 13 |
| List of Dr. Who Planets | 1 (a typo was fixed) |
| List of people from Maryland | 2 |
| Boy Scouts of America pages (1, 2) | 12 |
| The Jetsons | 1 |
| Edits to pages that hate on Windows | a lot |
| Super Nintendo Entertainment System | 1 |
| Nintendo 64 | 1: “anybody who describes Blast Corps as ‘Good’ violates NPOV. If a game gets bad reviews and doesn’t sell well, it is neither ‘exceptional’ nor ‘popular’” was added |
| Fictional Chemical Substances, A–M | 7 |
| Henry IV, Part I | 1 (spelling error) |
| List of Characters from How I Met Your Mother | 1 |
| Loch Ness Monster | 1 |
| :Gregor Samsa | 2 |
| Gerhard Frey | 1 |
| Iowa-related pages (1, 2, 3, 4) | 6 |
Count me disappointed.