Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

Ryan Ng has edited Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Wikipedia pages over 100 times.(Advance file photo)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A 17-year-old self-described redditor, Star Wars fan and 'epicgenius' is playing a large role in how the world is getting information about presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Staten Islander Ryan Ng has recently edited Clinton and Trump's Wikipedia pages over 100 times and has contributed thousands of edits since joining the site in 2012, the Washington Post reported.

"It's exciting to contribute your knowledge to the wiki, no matter where you're from," Ng told the Washington Post.

They also reported that both Trump and Clinton's Wikipedia pages have been edited 12,000 times by more than 2,000 unique users since they announced their candidacies last year.

Ng, who goes by Epicgenius on Wikipedia, doesn't get paid to edit pages -- he says he enjoys it.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia with over 39 million pages on a variety of topics, people, locations and things -- which is why so many people look to the site for information.

One of the largest differences between Wikipedia and other online encyclopedias, is that Wikipedia allows users to create, delete and edit a page's information.

Wikipedia pages is so exciting to him that it almost got him expelled from high school two years ago, the paper reported.

Wikipedia is the fifth-most visited website in the world -- with over 39 million pages of information -- and millions of people have used the site for information on Trump and Clinton during the course of their campaigns, the Washington Post reported.