Steven Pruitt is a Wikipedia Editor based in the Alexandria, Virginia area.

As of September 2018, he had over 2.5 million edits on Wikipedia, making him the most prolific editor in the platform's history.

Pruitt has been featured in OZY and the Washington Post.

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Pruitt is a descendant of a family who has had a presence in Virginia since 1635.

^[0] He graduated with a degree in Art History from the College of William & Mary in 2006.

Pruitt has been employed by Historic Tours of America, Data Systems Analysts, Answer Staffing Services, and most recently was a TSA Real Property Analyst at IT Coalition.

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Pruitt has been an editor for Wikipedia since 2004 and averages 540 edits per day.

He considers himself a WikiGnome, a wiki user who makes useful incremental edits without clamouring for attention.

According to the Wikimedia Foundation, Pruitt is the most prolific contributor to the English version of Wikipedia, editing 1/3rd of the 5.7 million articles in existence.

He is one of seven editors to reach 1 million articles and the only editor to reach 2 million views.

Pruitt has created over 31,000 original pages.

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