Knapp attended Covenant Christian High School, where he enrolled in 1997. He holds degrees in philosophy and political science from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. As of 2013, he was pursuing a nursing degree at Indiana University.
As of July 2015, Knapp had made almost 1.5 million edits to Wikipedia. He was ranked Number. 1 among the most active Wikipedia contributors of all time, from April 18, 2012 to November 1, 2015. Wikipedia Knapp announced his millionth edit to Wikipedia on April 19, 2012.
At the time, he had been submitting on average 385 edits a day since signing up in March 2005.
About his performance he said: "Being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed will do that to you." His Wikipedia username, Koavf, was chosen as an acronym for "King of all Vext Fans", a reference to a contest Knapp entered for the comic book Vext in the 1990s. Knapp was a significant contributor to Wikipedia"s bibliography on George Orwell, and he has also made many edits involving the categorization of albums through Wikipedia"s category structure.
In a 2014 interview with Business Insider, Knapp said that "there is no typical day" with regard to his Wikipedia editing, and that his "go-to edits are small style and typo fixes." He also argued that the declining number of Wikipedia editors is "not necessarily a problem". On July 21, 2014, his editing was the subject of a question on the British Broadcasting Corporation quiz show University Challenge.
Activism In 2005, at the United Nations Sixtieth General Assembly, Knapp advocated for the Sahrawi people and spoke about the situation then in Western Sahara.
He has also done community organizing for a Restore the Fourth rally in 2013. Other Knapp has several jobs unrelated to his Wikipedia editing, including delivering pizzas, and working at a grocery store and a crisis hotline.
Quotations: "Being suddenly and involuntarily unemployed will do that to you." His Wikipedia username, Koavf, was chosen as an acronym for "King of all Vext Fans".
