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Wikipedia Milestones

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  • June 16 2005 - Edited first WIKI article with details about the Alan Kulwicki feature film (after only a few anon edits)
Joe Nemechek
  • Late April 2006 - Distinct page edit #1000
  • October 18 2006 - first edit on German Wikipedia, adding images of local cities in an area of Wisconsin with mainly German descendents. I do not speaker German even though I am 15/16 German descent (okay maybe 20 words total, including counting 1 to 10). Please review my edits if you speak German.
Downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
  • March 8 2007 - Edit #11,000 was creating the article Holman Moody about the former NASCAR championship owners. The article was featured on the Did You Know section of the main page on March 12 2007, and it was my sixteenth article to be featured. I have edited 4912 unique articles.
  • Mid March 2007 - Edited 5000th unique article.
Kiel, Wisconsin, USA sign
  • April 29 2007 Second edit #12,000 was removing a spam link to lyrics in the article Dead Poetic. I lost around 300 edits to images that I had to upload to Wikimedia Commons.
  • May 27 2007 - #973 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits
  • June 13 2007 - Edit #14,000 was wikifying Eel River Racing. I have edited 5944 unique articles out of 1,832,860 articles (0.324%). 8686 edits were in article space.

July 16 2007 - Mario Andretti became the first Good Article that I have been involved with. At the time there were approximately 4070 articles either good or featured. I helped develop the article that was strong in Formula One, but weak in all other aspects especially IndyCar. Thanks to User:4u1e for guidance.

Downtown Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, USA
  • July 19 2007 - Edit #15,000 was reverting vandalism on the Trivia page. Reverting vandalism is not a trivial matter. I have edited 6211 articles out of 1,890,257 articles (0.329%). 9318 edits were in mainspace.
  • August 2 2007 - #859 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits
Daytona Beach Road Course today
  • October 16 2007 - Edit #18,000 was adding credit boxes to contributors who's articles were currently listed on the mainpage in the Did You Know section. They had been missed. Changed method of counting edits. This method counts all edits instead of only non-deleted edits.
  • March 11 2008 - #603 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits
Edit #3000 at Commons

April 2 2008 - Alan Kulwicki became the first Good Article that I did alone.

  • April 9 2008 - Edit #25000 was improving a reference on the Alan Kulwicki article while improving it towards Featured Article
  • May 23 2008 - #564 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits
  • July 23, 2008 - #570 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits, the first time the rank dropped
  • September 8, 2008 - Edited 10,000th unique article

September 11, 2008 - Eddie Hill became the third Good Article that I helped improve.

  • September 16, 2008 - #563 on the List of Wikipedians by number of edits
  • September 30, 2008 - Edit #29000 was expanding the Rockford Speedway article in my sandbox before posting
  • October 20, 2008 - Edit #4000 at Commons was using my trusted user status to verify that Image:Enda Muldoon.jpg had valid licensing as a flickr derivative
First pic on main page
  • January 11, 2009 - Edit #31,000 was reverting vandalism to the Matt Kenseth article
  • January 11, 2009 - The Signpost published an article that I co-wrote about the 2008 Did You Know Christmas theme in December 2008

February 28, 2009 - Rescued A. J. Foyt IV at Good Article reassessment to become the 4th GA that I helped

  • April 6, 2009 - Became administrator on Wikimedia Commons

April 11, 2009 - Tim Richmond became the fifth Good Article that I helped on

  • April 23, 2009 - Edit #34,000 was promoting a group of Did You Know hooks (diff) to the main page
  • April 27, 2009 - Edit #5000 on Commons was applying a protection template after protecting File:HMS Seine and Vengeance.jpg before it appeared on the English Wikipedia main page.
Second pic on main page
  • June 13, 2009 - Edit #35000 was giving a handwritten warning to User:Lhen yeyem about recreating a vanity article about him/herself
  • August 31, 2009 - Edit #36000 was swapping an image on the Bowman Gray Stadium from the English Wikipedia version to the Commons duplicate to allow cleanup
  • December 19, 2009 - Edit #37000 was expanding the David Pearson article in my sandbox while improving it toward a GA run.
  • December 23, 2009 - David Pearson became my 100th DYK article on the main page (includes 10 nominations)

February 14, 2010 - David Pearson (NASCAR driver) has passed Good Article review

3rd image on main page, 100th DYK
  • December 14, 2010 - Edit #41000 was adding images to my "To Do" list for upcoming articles
  • March 28, 2011 - Edit #9000 on Commons, using Commonist to upload an image
  • April 3, 2011 - 4th picture on main page in DYK, showing world record set at Gravity Park USA
  • 4th picture on main page
    4th picture on main page
  • Commons edit #10000 - Harsha House
    Commons edit #10000 - Harsha House
  • 5th image on main page
    5th image on main page
  • 6th image on main page
    6th image on main page
  • Edit #11000 on Commons
    Edit #11000 on Commons
  • July 20, 2013 - Edit #13000 on Commons was creating a category for Pavilions in Wisconsin
7th image on main page
  • December 17, 2014 - Edit #50000 was removing the {{Inuse}} tag from the Bob Ryan (mayor) article - cited reliable sources during its AFD.
  • October 4, 2017 - Edit #52000 was adding 2017 results in the ARCA series for the Ty Majeski article
  • January 1, 2018 - Edit # 17000 to Commons was renaming the category "NBA Development League" to "NBA G League" with the Commons Delinker (administrator) tool
8th image on main page
  • July 26, 2020 - Edit #54000 was adding a national championship to Chandler Smith's page
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