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Wikipedian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Mammalia
Order:
Primates
Superfamily:
Hominoidea
Family:
Hominidae
Subfamily:
Homininae
Tribe:
Hominini
Genus:
Homo
Species:
H. wikipediens
Binomial name
Homo wikipediens
Wales, 2001
Subspecies

Homo wikipediens sysopous†
Homo wikipediens bureaucratous†
Homo wikipediens userous

Wikipedians are the people who write and edit articles for Wikipedia. Some people might think that Wikipedist would be a more appropriate name, as an encyclopedist is someone who contributes to an encyclopedia. Some also think that "wikipediator" would be better than "wikipedians" as it is like an encyclopedia moderator (as said by avid 'wikipedian' boxbrown). The ending of Wikipedian, though, suggests being part of a group or community. So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form The Wikipedia Community. For additional discussion of the Wikipedia community, see the Meta site [1] and Wikipedia:Who, Why?. For a scholarly view, see Motivations for contributing to online communities.

The number of Wikipedians has grown to more than 1.25 million (1,250,000 -- counting registered user accounts), plus an unknown, but quite large, number of unregistered contributors. Detailed statistical information about Wikipedia is available at Wikipedia:Statistics.

The diversity of Wikipedians renders it nearly impossible to make many categorical statements about Wikipedians as a whole. Information about many registered Wikipedians is available on their user pages. However, users are not required to create these pages or post information on them.

You could think of Wikipedians as a global ant colony—except there's no queen, and users choose their own roles. Some Wikipedians Welcome Newcomers, some Wikipedians award those whom they feel deserve awards. Some upload images, some work on history articles, and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all of these tasks. Whatever you decide to do, every Wikipedian is valuable.

This page contains lists of Wikipedians by country, as well as various other groupings. Different categories have been created due to demand. Individual Wikipedians may add themselves to appropriate lists if they wish. It is suggested that if you put your name on one of the more specific lists, you should also include it on the alphabetical list.

Wikipedians are a colorful group of individuals that enjoy contributing to society by compiling and distributing useful information over the Internet in their ample free time.

Alphabetical listing

Listing by region

Please list yourself both by your nationality and also by your place of current residence. For example, if John has moved to the United States from Ireland, he can put himself in both places at once (if he wants to).

This system has been deprecated. This has been incorporated into a project to re-implement the user lists of Wikipedia:Wikipedians into a set of Categories. Feel free to help! Virtually all lists found listed as subsections of Wikipedia:Wikipedians should be eventually converted into Categories and their included links converted to the new system by tagging them in the appropriate new categories.

See Category:Wikipedians and Category:Wikipedians by location for more info. Please see the new project page at Wikipedia:User categorisation to help!

Basically if the link on the left is going to a subpage of Wikipedia:Wikipedians, it is still being crawled to eventually be replaced by the link on the right - once it has been replaced, it should link to the country's article instead, and the link to the new category should be made bold. If you are going to add yourself to any list, please use the new Categories instead of the old lists!

This change makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons.

List of notice boards by region
Earth overall: Category:Wikipedians with World Citizenship
Afghanistan Category:Wikipedians in Afghanistan
Albania Category:Wikipedians in Albania
Algeria Category:Wikipedians in Algeria
Andorra Category:Wikipedians in Andorra
Angola Category:Wikipedians in Angola
Antigua & Barbuda Category:Wikipedians in Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina Category:Wikipedians of Argentina
Armenia Category:Wikipedians in Armenia
Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Category:Wikipedians in Aruba
Australia Category:Wikipedians in Australia
Austria Category:Wikipedians in Austria
Azerbaijan Category:Wikipedians in Azerbaijan
Bangladesh Category:Bangladeshi Wikipedians
Barbados Category:Wikipedians in Barbados
Basque Country (area including parts of Spain and France) Category:Wikipedians in Basque Country
Belarus Category:Wikipedians in Belarus
Belgium Category:Wikipedians in Belgium
Bermuda Category:Wikipedians in Bermuda
Bhutan Category:Wikipedians in Bhutan
Bolivia Category:Wikipedians in Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina Category:Wikipedians in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana Category:Wikipedians in Botswana
Brazil Category:Wikipedians in Brazil
Bulgaria Category:Wikipedians in Bulgaria
Cameroon Category:Wikipedians in Cameroon
Canada Category:Wikipedians in Canada
Acadia (part of Canada) Category:Wikipedians in Acadia
Quebec (part of Canada) Category:Wikipedians in Quebec
Cape Verde Category:Wikipedians in Cape Verde
Caribbean Category:Caribbean Wikipedians
Catalonia (are including parts of Spain, Andorra and France) Category:Wikipedians in Catalonia
Channel Islands Category:Wikipedians in the Channel Islands
Chechnya (part of Russia republic) Category:Wikipedians in Chechnya
Chile Category:Chilean Wikipedians
China (includes Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) Category:Wikipedians in China
Colombia Category:Wikipedians in Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire Category:Wikipedians in Côte d'Ivoire
Costa Rica Category:Wikipedians of Costa Rica
Croatia Category:Wikipedians in Croatia
Cuba Category:Wikipedians in Cuba
Curaçao Category:Wikipedians in Curaçao
Cyprus (including Northern Cyprus) Category:Wikipedians in Cyprus
Czech Republic Category:Wikipedians in Czech Republic
Denmark Category:Danish Wikipedians
Danube Category:Danube-Swabian Wikipedians
East Timor Category:Wikipedians in East Timor
Ecuador Category:Wikipedians in Ecuador
Egypt Category:Wikipedians in Egypt
El Salvador Category:Wikipedians in El Salvador
England (part of UK) Category:Wikipedians in England
Estonia Category:Wikipedians in Estonia
Europe Category:Wikipedians in Europe
Faroe Islands (part of the Kingdom of Denmark) Category:Wikipedians in Faroe Islands
Fiji Category:Wikipedians in Fiji
Finland Category:Wikipedians in Finland
France Category:Wikipedians in France
Brittany (part of France) Category:Wikipedians in Brittany
Occitan (part of France) Category:Wikipedians in Occitan
Georgia Category:Wikipedians in Georgia
Germany Category:Wikipedians in Germany
Ghana Category:Wikipedians in Ghana
Greece Category:Wikipedians in Greece
Guadeloupe (an overseas department of France) Category:Wikipedians in Guadeloupe
Honduras Category:Wikipedians in Honduras
Hong Kong (a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China) Category:Hong Kong Wikipedians
Hungary Category:Wikipedians in Hungary
Iceland Category:Wikipedians in Iceland
India Category:Indian Wikipedians
Indonesia Category:Wikipedians in Indonesia
Iran Category:Wikipedians in Iran
Iraq Category:Wikipedians in Iraq
Ireland Category:Wikipedians in Ireland
Israel Category:Israeli Wikipedians
Italy Category:Wikipedians in Italy
Jamaica Category:Wikipedians in Jamaica
Japan Category:Wikipedians in Japan
Jordan Category:Wikipedians in Jordan
Korea (including both sides of the Korean peninsula, North Korea and South Korea) Category:Wikipedians in Korea
South Korea Category:Wikipedians in South Korea
Kuwait Category:Wikipedians in Kuwait
Latvia Category:Wikipedians in Latvia
Liberia Category:Wikipedians in Liberia
Libya Category:Wikipedians in Libya
Lithuania Category:Wikipedians in Lithuania
Lebanon Category:Wikipedians in Lebanon
Luxembourg Category:Wikipedians in Luxembourg
Macao (a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China) Category:Wikipedians in Macao
Republic of Macedonia Category:Wikipedians in Republic of Macedonia
Malaysia Category:Wikipedians in Malaysia
Maldives Category:Wikipedians in Maldives
Malta Category:Wikipedians in Malta
Mexico Category:Wikipedians of Mexico
Moldova Category:Wikipedians in Moldova
Mongolia Category:Wikipedians in Mongolia
Morocco Category:Wikipedians in Morocco
Mozambique Category:Wikipedians in Mozambique
Myanmar Category:Wikipedians in Myanmar
Nepal Category:Wikipedians in Nepal
The Netherlands Category:Wikipedians in the Netherlands
New Zealand Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand
Nigeria Category:Wikipedians in Nigeria
Northern Ireland (part of UK)Category:Wikipedians in Northern Ireland
Norway Category:Wikipedians in Norway
Oman Category:Wikipedians in Oman
Palestine Category:Wikipedians in Palestine
Pakistan Category:Wikipedians in Pakistan
Paraguay Category:Wikipedians in Paraguay
Peru Category:Peruvian Wikipedians
Philippines Category:Filipino Wikipedians
Pitcairn Islands Category:Wikipedians in Pitcairn Islands (UK colony)
Poland Category:Wikipedians in Poland
Portugal Category:Wikipedians in Portugal
Puerto Rico (a commonwealth of the United States of America) Category:Wikipedians in Puerto Rico
Romania Category:Wikipedians in Romania
Russia Category:Russian Wikipedians
Saint Lucia Category:Saint Lucian Wikipedians
San Marino Category:Wikipedians in San Marino
Saudi Arabia Category:Wikipedians in Saudi Arabia
Category:Scandinavian Wikipedians
Scotland (part of UK) Category:Wikipedians in Scotland
Serbia and Montenegro Category:Wikipedians in Serbia and Montenegro
Kosovo (part of Serbia and Montenegro) Category:Wikipedians in Kosovo
Singapore Category:Wikipedians in Singapore
Slovenia Category:Wikipedians in Slovenia
Slovakia Category:Wikipedians in Slovakia
South Africa Category:Wikipedians in South Africa
Spain Category:Wikipedians in Spain
Andalusia Category:Wikipedians in Andalusia (Spain)
León Category:Wikipedians in León (Spain)
Sri Lanka Category:Wikipedians in Sri Lanka
Suriname Category:Wikipedians in Suriname
Sweden Category:Wikipedians in Sweden
Switzerland Category:Wikipedians in Switzerland
Syria Category:Wikipedians in Syria
Taiwan (Republic of China) Category:Wikipedians in Taiwan
Tanzania Category:Wikipedians in Tanzania
Thailand Category:Wikipedians in Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago Category:Wikipedians in Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey Category:Wikipedians in Turkey
Uganda Category:Wikipedians in Uganda
Ukraine Category:Wikipedians in Ukraine
United Arab Emirates Category:Wikipedians in United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom
United States of America Category:Wikipedians in the United States
Uruguay Category:Wikipedians in Uruguay
Venezuela Category:Wikipedians in Venezuela
Vietnam Category:Wikipedians in Vietnam
Wales Category:Wikipedians in Wales (part of UK)
If your country isn't listed above, add it! - it should be in the format Category:Wikipedians in (Country Name) and should tagged in the Category:Wikipedians by location

Other listings

All lists are strictly voluntary. We encourage you to spend your time categorising our encyclopedic content, rather than categorising yourself!

Many of these lists are eligible for replacement by categories. Please see Wikipedia:User categorisation to help!

Listings on Meta-Wiki

Skills-based listings

We can all string a few words together (some better than others), but Wikipedia is in need of contributors with other skills. If you are proficient in any of the following skills, please add your technological distinctiveness to the collective.

Wikipedian associations

Some Wikipedians have formed voluntary associations to participate in various activities on Wikipedia. Consult their pages if you are interested in joining.

See also


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