Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival/2001

This is an archive of Wikipedians in order of arrival in 2001.

January 2001

 * WojPob (inactive since June 2003)
 * AstroNomer (semi-active since 2011)
 * Josh Grosse ( inactive since 2006)
 * AyeSpy (inactive since before the move to phase III)
 * RoseParks (inactive since 2009)
 * Tim Shell - And I can prove it :) (inactive since 2006)
 * BryceHarrington - Joined up with Wikipedia after the brief GNUPedia episode and its mention on Slashdot. Did some of the first Britannica copying.  Pimped wikipedia a bit on Indymedia and some other sites. (inactive since 2017)
 * Larry Sanger (earliest edits as LarrySanger)
 * Jimbo Wales (Founder)

February 2001

 * Lee Daniel Crocker

March 2001

 * Stephen Gilbert
 * Rob Salzman (inactive as RobSalzman since August 2003 - but still (semi)-active as justrob)
 * Geronimo Jones (inactive since March 2001)
 * Mathijs read about it in the newspaper (inactive since February 2002)
 * Erdem Tüzün (inactive since prior to the move to phase III)
 * Andre Engels
 * Malcolm Farmer - after a slashdotting. Every other article back then was either an Atlas Shrugged or a Larry Sanger philosophy article. How far it's come since then...
 * Phil Bordelon I'd be lying if I remembered why I came here originally; I hacked a bit on some Settlers of Catan stuff, went back to lurk mode, and only recently have started to really edit again.
 * Gareth Owen Also can't remember why I came, but noticed it lacked my favourite musicians, so resolved to add them

April 2001

 * Koyaanis Qatsi (based on the revision history of Bahrain. Followed over from a comment on slashdot)
 * rmhermen -anonymously until May 10, came over from the link on Nupedia
 * Kpjas (subscribed to wikipedia-l@nupedia.com on Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:12:51 -0700)

May 2001

 * Mjausson (based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001) (inactive since prior to the move to phase III)
 * Wathiik (based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001)
 * LA2 (based on Wikipedia Announcements/May 2001)
 * sjc
 * Tim Chambers

July 2001

 * TwoOneTwo
 * The Cunctator (July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting)
 * AxelBoldt (July 26, the day of the big Slashdotting)
 * BrantEaton (July 26, Slashdot effect was my first article!)
 * Dmerrill, another one from the Slashdotting
 * James F., yet another Slashdotter (though the account is newer)
 * Tim Goodwin (guess which well-known blog appears on my Personal Toolbar)
 * Simon J Kissane (thinks he arrived just before slashdotting)
 * Kowloonese as anonymous 24.4.254.xxx et al. (since first week of July, 2001)
 * Claudine not from Slashdot, but from the Kuro5hin article that might have led to it
 * snoyes (k5 article)
 * DrBob Due to either the Kuro5hin or Slashdot articles

August 2001

 * sodium sometime in august.
 * LC
 * MichaelTinkler (it was before school started...)
 * Zundark (on 6th or 7th, not sure which)
 * Anatoly Vorobey (arrived probably during the slashdotting, first contribution early August)
 * BenBaker (2nd wave of slashdotting, 1st or 2nd, I think.)
 * Alan Millar the big slashdotting...
 * Bryan Derksen
 * THERESA KNOTT now known as theresa knott from a post by someone (I forget who) on usenet (sci.physics)
 * Jagged first contribution listed on 15 August, 2001.

September 2001

 * Chuck Smith (discovered in March, started contributing now)
 * Tsja
 * JHK
 * Eob (after reading the article in the New York Times, September 20)
 * Bignose
 * Manning I was here a day or two before JHK... I thought it was earlier than September, but maybe not.

October 2001

 * Paul Melville Austin
 * the Epopt
 * Dreamyshade (at least that's when I first contributed)
 * The Anome
 * Mark - as an anon, but the account Mark Ryan didn't come for another 3 months, in January 2002.
 * Wesley (must have been early to middle of 2001 - how it's changed since then)

November 2001

 * Wayne Hardman November 23rd
 * Jzcool
 * Xaonon
 * Goochelaar
 * Chenyu
 * Joel Schlosberg
 * Ed Poor
 * Derek Ross (However October 134.132.xxx.xxx postings were me too)
 * Jmc (November 16)

December 2001

 * Slrubenstein (died March 2012)
 * Tuxisuau
 * Edgar
 * David Parker (Dec. 12)
 * little_guru
 * SimonP (Dec. 9 - from segment in New York Times Magazine)
 * user:Szopen (probably since beginning of December or end of November 2001)
 * Robert Merkel - probably earlier, but I can't tell exactly when I arrived.