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to bring together a community of editors interested in the sport and to provide a central point of discussion. Members of the project have brought over a dozen more articles to Good Article status, including
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I formally joined Knowledge in 2008, following a period of anonymous editing (mainly fixing typos and filling out biographies). My username was chosen to reflect a childhood love of folk music (
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in 2015, which is an initiative to create new biographies about important women who are not yet covered – it is amazing what this community has achieved and I'm proud to be a part of it.
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I am interested in improving the coverage of under-represented subjects and people – a lot of my work extends into coverage of the developing world and
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Personally, I have worked on improving all elements of Knowledge relating to athletics: from writing biographies on everyone from
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This is not an encyclopedia article or the talk page for an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than
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As of 2018, I am looking to develop a data model for athletics and Olympics statistics at
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Book of All Knowledge with Secret Appendix, Free Errata Sheet, and Author's Signature
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album) and contributed to Knowledge's front page for the first time through a
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to work on improving Olympic content alongside fellow sports enthusiasts.
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Articles I have contributed to "Did You Know...?" section
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In my first year of editing, I created my first article (
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Thanks I have received from fellow editors and readers
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1930s fascist-approved gatherings of women athletes
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