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The Canadian Council on learning has an article on Simon Pulsifer, who is well known on Wikipedia as one of the most prolific contributors/editors:
On the morning of Dec. 10, 2001—he remembers the exact date—Simon Pulsifer logged onto Wikipedia.org and wrote the internet encyclopedia’s first entry about the Central American waterway.
I’ve always encouraged my students to find holes on wikipedia that need to be filled in, particularly relating to learning and children, or to ‘fix up’ content in need of repair.