Ashley Van Haeften on Wikimedia

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For the British Museum article, 686 authors currently require attributionNumber of contributions, name, edit date range521 (518/3) M.chohan 2007-01-07 19:55 – 2008-01-01 11:25181 (181/0) 81.106.79.133 (anon) 2007-01-02 22:25 – 2007-11-13 15:3342 (16/26) Ham 2004-08-25 19:11 – 2010-05-12 18:2738 (38/0) 194.203.201.92 (anon) 2007-01-03 14:56 – 2007-08-02 12:5328 (28/0) Neddyseagoon 2006-05-14 11:46 – 2011-01-14 12:0127 (11/16) Runcorn 2006-08-23 19:55 – 2007-04-05 12:1425 (0/25) CommonsDelinker (bot) 2007-08-21 13:37 – 2011-02-12 23:3024 (24/0) Cheesy mike 2007-11-07 13:51 – 2007-11-13 18:0023 (21/2) Mervyn 2006-05-01 15:38 – 2007-08-07 08:1122 (22/0) Johnbod 2008-02-26 00:03 – 2011-05-26 12:1522 (8/14) Canterbury Tail 2007-11-09 17:20 – 2011-10-10 17:5819 (17/2) LordHarris 2007-02-09 13:29 – 2007-04-24 21:0719 (19/0) Balthazarduju 2007-04-03 14:20 – 2008-10-29 19:4815 (15/0) 195.194.86.1 (anon) 2006-08-15 07:51 – 2010-04-20 13:1714 (12/2) Yahel Guhan 2007-04-19 04:42 – 2007-04-24 05:0813 (9/4) Williams119 2007-11-11 23:51 – 2007-11-17 21:3613 (13/0) 84.69.246.63 (anon) 2006-08-14 18:25 – 2006-08-14 19:2612 (0/12) SmackBot (bot) 2006-03-25 19:17 – 2010-09-13 19:3010 (0/10) Gaius Cornelius 2006-02-09 22:56 – 2010-10-06 23:0810 (7/3) Pigsonthewing 2007-03-17 21:07 – 2007-06-27 08:2210 (9/1) Awadewit 2007-07-12 01:26 – 2007-07-12 01:579 (0/9) Jpbowen 2005-08-21 12:56 – 2009-01-11 19:089 (9/0) Reaper7 2007-07-10 21:02 – 2008-03-07 12:168 (8/0) Cherryguy93 2009-09-12 19:13 – 2011-04-16 09:308 (3/5) Jllm06 2009-10-01 19:03 – 2010-06-05 16:33+ 661 further named authors

Numbers based on the English Wikipedia only.280+ other Wikipedias might need to be checked. Many edits may no longer exist in the current version being data-mined.