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.