Results tagged “wikipedia”

Photo by Jonathan Goldsbie.

Today's featured article on Wikipedia is about the Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory, the 1840–built building that did some important stuff we don't entirely understand in the 19th century, and then got handed over to the University of Toronto Students' Union—then the Students' Administrative Council—in 1953. That means Toronto's little observatory that could ("determine the cause of fluctuations in magnetic declination") has finally joined the illustrious ranks of this month's other featured articles: domestic sheep, Jackie Chan, the Calgary Flames.

Wikipedia recently updated their list of the most prolific editors, and Torontoist was pleased to discover that at 181,749 edits, the most prolific human is a Toronto resident. Bearcat’s user profile describes him as "an underemployed gay freelance writer of Franco-Ontarian stock in Toronto, Ontario, who votes for the New Democratic Party, drinks Alexander Keith's, hangs out at the Church and Wellesley Timothy's."