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By clicking on the username, you’ll see what other articles the user has contributed to, what images they have uploaded, and get to know the people they collaborate with to make your favorite project the success it is.

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You can also click on the timestamp to see what the last editor did to a page; it might have been to add new information, update existing information, revert some vandalism, or something as simple as a spelling correction. We hope that by seeing how other editors have contributed in such a prominent way, readers will get a glimpse of the types of contributions they might be able to make themselves. This may encourage more readers to make the leap to becoming an editor which, when editing via wikitext, sometimes seems might seem as scary as the thick woods were to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowardly_Lion cowardly lion]. The page also serves as a launch pad to give you the opportunity, if logged in, to thank those editors whose contributions you find most valuable. It’s a small way to contribute to our project, but every contribution helps!