Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians in order of arrival/2003

This is an archive of Wikipedians in order of arrival in 2003.

December 2003

 * 8k – December 30: Last but not least!
 * Wayland – December 25: Happy holiday!
 * Thalia – Minor anonymous edits at first, then signed on.
 * Victor – December 6 (First edit)
 * UtherSRG – December 4
 * Catbar – December 3
 * Darkelf &mdash; December 18. Got invited to create an article here, and ended up creating a bunch of them.
 * Seth Ilys – 20 Dec 2003.
 * alerante — (first edit) 23 December 2003.
 * Lyellin – I had a few random edits, but I created the account on December 23rd.
 * Saul Taylor First edit was at nine minutes past four in the morning (UTC) on the eighth December
 * JackofOz – 8 December (with several anonymous ones a few days earlier)
 * Cyrius – Account created December 24, a few anonymous edits in the weeks before.
 * David Edgar – after one or two anonymous edits, I made my first logged-in edit at 14:12, 8 Dec 2003 (and then went 4 months before my next edit).
 * Doidimais Brasil – Page since December 5. Long live Wikipedia!

November 2003

 * AceMyth
 * Auric The Rad Got hooked during school project, found out that it was still running two years later. Signed up when I found out how to edit. Now a confirmed WikiJunkie.
 * Bkell
 * Calmypal
 * Davodd – Looked up trailer park trash, edited an error and was hooked.
 * Gandalf61
 * Halibutt – got stuck here
 * JB82 – Started editing articles under anonymity; signed up when invited
 * Lawrence Lavigne – Started with my hometown, couldn't stop afterwards
 * L UDRAMAN | T
 * Meelar I found it after a google search for "campaign finance reform" revealed that the article could be improved—I saw "edit this page", and did
 * Merovingian – At first an extemely wiki-amateur IP, I discovered I could edit and it was like I had rediscovered how to live.
 * Mirv—Reader since February 2003, I made a few minor anonymous edits here and there; my first article edit with this account was to Battle of Adrianople.
 * Nateji77
 * Noldoaran
 * Sunray – Had used Wikipedia many times. And then I saw an error...
 * Tualha
 * Tim Ivorson
 * PMC – Discovered editing and tried it. Couldn't stop.
 * Humus sapiens – (On Nov 25) Noticed an error, clicked "Edit this page", got hooked. Now fighting the addiction.
 * Evil Monkey – as Enceladus

October 2003

 * Jmabel – Got here while researching collaborative authoring technologies for a client, and plunged right in.
 * voyager640
 * Branddobbe October 4; first edit was on Vista, California.
 * Gentgeen October 5
 * RogueScholar - October 13; came here to create a couple pages about my alma mater's football team and got sidetracked by Portuguese martial arts in the process, the quintessential Wikipedia experience (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jogo_do_pau&oldid=1588637)
 * Sverdrup – first edit
 * ChrisO
 * Fredrik – First logged-in edit on October 25.
 * zandperl – 20 Oct
 * Robbot
 * RedWolf
 * Dale Arnett
 * Jeff8765 – Came here after reading an article about it in Wired
 * DopefishJustin – found this while researching a school report on the Meiji Restoration, couldn't resist fixing spelling mistakes, came back later to add more stuff I know about :)
 * Dmn / &#1332;&#1396;&#1398; At about this date, I created a page on self referential humour and redirected it to itself
 * MattSal – Discovered while researching skycrapers, and saw that a list of skyscrapers in U.S. was lacking.
 * TMillerCA – Discovered via Wired Magazine article. Made  first edit on October 20.
 * Kizor – Found the place via the cast page of It's Walky! or something. Would've no doubt found out soon anyway, the place was and still is getting famous fast.
 * Halda – After browsing around several articles (my interests are quite eclectic) I became a Wikipedian on 30 October in order to alleviate the crushing boredom of a crappy job.
 * Nurg – edited as anon from 6 October and created an account at the end of the month

September 2003
User:Adam Carr: I became annoyed at the poor quality of history articles in general and Australian history articles in particular. 16,000 edits later I am still here.
 * Chris Jefferies – I started editing Wikipedia on 4th, as soon as I found it. The article on my home town (St Neots, England) seemed a bit lacking so I began adding to it. One thing led to another (mostly the links :-) so they had to be added or fixed. It's brilliant – I love it!
 * Gjking – I've been using it for a couple of months now... what a fantastic resource. So I decided to try to start contributing, assuming grad school leaves me some free time.
 * jni – I created this account in late September 2003, after being an anonymous contributor for a short period of time. I was mostly on WikiVacation until August 2004, though. jni 09:51, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Tedius Zanarukando – I have begun to edit in Wikipedia on September 1, 2003, when Wikipedia happened to appear on my Yahoo! search engine. I added an article on Nintendo's Fire Emblem series, being my second Wikipedia article.  My first Wikipedia article is on enhanced remakes, for I am a fan of realism.
 * Pingveno – found Wikipedia while looking through some bookmarks that came with Mandrake Linux. I started contributing, editing, and using Wikipedia, as well as the other parts of Wikimedia. I use it primarily for homework, that wonderful thing that plagues students of all ages.
 * Lumos3 – My son asked me to help him find more information on the English Civil War. So I used Google and of all the pages returned was impressed with how extensive the material on Wikipedia was. I soon became hooked.
 * Sarge Baldy – Someone linked to a Wikipedia article on IRC. I didn't think much of it until I saw the edit button. It was all downhill from there :) Sarge Baldy 03:41, Nov 1, 2004 (UTC)
 * User:Wetman – My name is Wetman and I'm a Wikipediholic... I arrived 19:44, 4 Sep 2003 with an edit at Aquarium. Then I realized Wikipedia was the place to unload sections from an essay of mine on Orion (mythology). Then I was hooked...
 * Johnleemk | Talk – I'd done quite a bit of editing as an anon for a few months beforehand. Then I registered and promptly forgot about it, so I didn't begin editing with this account full-time until March or April 2004. Between then and September, when I did edit, I did so anonymously.

August 2003

 * Raul654 – found Wikipedia while writing quiz bowl questions. My very first edit.
 * Thoth--Ah, what the internet was meant for!  A free communication and archival of knowledge, instead of a bloated pornography dispenser (not that there's anything wrong with that).  Anyway, I found it enjoyable occaisionally making a real article and maintaining or reworking the various articles that aren't quite done.  I try to put in stub work wherever it's needed when I'm short on time.
 * Ark30inf – came and looked for some Arkansas information and didn't find much. So I decided to add some.  While doing some of this noticed that some Civil War stuff needs work.  While doing this noticed that.......oh well looks like I will be here awhile.
 * Noel – even this close to the event, it took me a while to remember what brought me here (it was the Wired story, but I don't recall how I ran across *that*) – I seem to have been totally sucked into the WikiVerse; definitely love at first sight
 * Sabbut – Yet another college student ^^
 * James Anatidae Wow! What a great place to waste time for the benefit of others!
 * Ranjith Ranadheeran
 * Khym Chanur
 * AndrewKepert Wow! What a great place to benefit from the wasted time of others!  8-)  ... and pornography wars are never civil.
 * Secretlondon
 * Morwen
 * Optim: College student from Athens, Greece.
 * Securiger Started anonymously in August, got an account to uplaod pics in November, can't remember what brought me here but it was something about crypto. Already been through phases absolutely hooked -> disillusioned -> just doing what i can to help.
 * SDP Doing what I can.
 * Lord Emsworth
 * Darc Marjal – Started with Manchester International Airport after a trip there and immediately got hooked. What better place to put down all that (otherwise) useless trivia in my brain?
 * VeryVerily (VV for short) – Had bumped into Wikipedia a few times while websurfing, decided at this point to get involved.
 * Grendelkhan – Edited my town's info page first. Moved onto the LCC pages shortly thereafter.
 * Chris Rodgers. Learned of through a friend, became both intrigued and impressed with the resource, have tried to contribute some fair share in return.
 * Mackensen
 * Biekko, made a stub about my university and expanded the article about my town which was a single sentence before.
 * Zero. I was anonymous for a few months before this, but this is when I got an account that I'm still using 11 years later.

July 2003

 * Steinsky
 * Thomas Strohmann
 * poco poco – got my first WikiWiki on my Franklin eBookMan, find it so useful that I installed PHP Wiki on our home network, searched around a bit more, found this site, fell in love.
 * Tb
 * Jake Nelson
 * KRS--when I searched for'History from below' in Google, Wikipedia featured in the first page and gave a good explanation.
 * Jwrosenzweig Found Wikipedia back in 2002 and loved it...finally decided it was time to transition from user to editor
 * Cjmnyc
 * Maximus Rex
 * Jay – I came to Wikipedia through Google looking for film reviews. My first impression of it was that of a buggy website where you click a red link and it opens a large empty box !
 * Wik
 * WhisperToMe
 * Dysprosia
 * Reddi : made 1st edit July 4.
 * Rednblu My first edit, a creation of a new page, lasted thirteen minutes :))  But I saw that the subsequent edit process preserved the gist of what I had added.
 * MarkusRTK – though after five edits, I forgot about Wikipedia for a year and a half!
 * Sesel
 * User:Visorstuff – officially registering my username...

June 2003

 * ike9898 June 23, 2003 when I saw something incorrect in the urea article
 * Timwi
 * Len Bounds of Salem Oregon as user named Dmsar.
 * Adam Bishop (but anonymously in January)
 * Fruggo
 * Charles Matthews
 * BCorr ¤ &#1041;&#1088;&#1072;&#1081;&#1077;&#1085; (as 63.186.64.79, etc. until September)
 * Motor Discovered Wikipedia through slashdot and made some timid edits
 * Andrevan
 * JCarriker
 * Eszett
 * DJ Clayworth I can't believe my first edit was a move!

May 2003

 * UsagiYojimbo
 * Neolux Although I registered and contributed first in June 03
 * Jengod
 * Mulad
 * Conti
 * — Il&gamma;&alpha;&eta;&epsilon;&rho;   (T&alpha;l&kappa;)  May 7, '03
 * ugen64
 * Lommer

April 2003

 * Alex756 – April 21, 2003, first edit: Bialowieza Forest
 * TimmyD – I'll be probably working through Computers, Gaming, and whatever else I can get my hands on. This is a very fascinating place!
 * JimRegan
 * Rotem Dan – Had some anonymous contributions at the end of march, discovered wikipedia much earlier (but didn't understand what is a wiki back then)
 * Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick – April 14, anonymously on the 13th. (Had been reading earlier, and maybe done a newbie test or a few before as well, honestly don't remember.) First page knowingly read: Rhazes
 * john
 * Lou Imholt Otherwise known as LouI.
 * djmutex with some earlier anonymous edits also.
 * Jiang
 * Francs2000 though I didn't sign up for the username till September, being the suspicious goit that I am... The first page I saw was for my distant cousin Hugh Paddick.
 * Kwekubo – AKA Gabriel Beecham on other language version.
 * Evercat

March 2003

 * Matt Knox
 * Amcaja
 * Poor Yorick
 * Zannah
 * kylet
 * Webkid
 * Cyan
 * Toby W
 * Sir Paul March 25, 2003. I started making contributions earlier, though --but anonymously. My first one was, I think, made on November 4, 2002.
 * Goblin
 * User:UninvitedCompany

February 2003

 * G-Man
 * Hyungjin Ahn
 * John Schmidt (February 27)
 * Notheruser (Feb. 19)
 * Muriel Gottrop (Feb 11)
 * William M. Connolley (Feb 6) (By invitation :-). First edit on Global warming as 192.171.137.16)
 * jimfbleak (Feb 3)
 * Docu
 * Arwel (Feb 1) (S4C was my first edit and first new article) – was in-active on August 4, 2005, but in returned 5 days.
 * Morven

January 2003

 * Ahoerstemeier
 * Angela
 * Bagpuss
 * DavidWBrooks
 * Dori (Jan 9th)
 * Egil
 * Gaz
 * Greenman
 * goatasaur – (Dredg was my first edit and first new article, 1/22/2003)
 * LittleDan, under the name User:Anonymous56789, but forced to change it.
 * Minesweeper
 * Nanobug
 * Paddu
 * Pcb21 – the 100,000 article slashdotting
 * Ronabop
 * Stan Shebs
 * Tiles