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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.