Wikipedia:Wikipedians

Wikipedian Conservation status: Secure
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. 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.

The number of Wikipedians has grown to more than 2 million (currently and precisely 48,455,161 — 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.

One could think of the Wikipedians as a global ant colony, except that there is 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; cleaning up grammar; 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.

A trend among the Wikipedians is creating and collecting userboxes for display on their user pages. Userboxes are small individual templates that describe users' attributes and interests. Wikipedians use these boxes for a number of reasons. Some use them to find other users' with common goals and/or interests, some use them for statistical reasons, and some use them as a cure for boredom. Some users will often create a page containing solely of userboxes, and never return; while others will return to make substantial contributions in building the encyclopedia. The userboxes have proven to be a fun, optional, and effective way to sort and categorize Wikipedians.

Listing by area of responsibility

Some Wikipedians have additional responsibility or authority. Here is a list of functional groups at Wikipedia itself:

• Arbitration committee
• "Bureaucrats" who can change user names, and make certain user rights changes
• Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser - Involved in certain types of abuse investigations
• Wikipedia:List of Administrators
• OTRS personnel who answer email sent to the Wikipedia contact address (list includes other languages and projects as well)
• Wikipedia:IRC - Wikipedians who can deal with management issues regarding the #wikipedia IRC channel at Freenode
• Wikipedia:Mailing list - Mailing list moderation and management

In addition there are some groups that serve the entire Wikimedia foundation, including Wikipedians in languages other than English and sister projects such as commons, Wiktionary, and Wikibooks:

• m:Board of Trustees - Oversight
• m:Developers - Technical access to servers
• Freenode IRC contacts - dealing with permissions, hostname cloaks, and related IRC matters
• m:Stewards - Can revoke permissions when necessary and will grant permissions on small projects that lack an internal process for doing so

Finally there are several key individuals who have special responsibilities unique to them:

• Jimbo Wales, project founder
• Danny Wool, working fulltime for the Wikimedia Foundation
• Brad Patrick, the foundation's general counsel and interim executive director

Listing by region

See Category:Wikipedians and Category:Wikipedians by location for more info.

Please see the new project page at Wikipedia:User categorisation to help!

Other listings

All lists are strictly voluntary. We greatly 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 categorization to help!

• Deceased Wikipedians
• by alma mater (current or former higher education institution)
  • Category:Wikipedians by alma mater
• by culture
• by D&D alignment
• Wikipedians by Erdős number
  • Category:Wikipedians by Erdős number
• by field of interest
  • Category:Wikipedians by fields of interest
• by instant messaging service used
• with articles
• by number of edits
• by organization
  • Category:Wikipedians by organization
• by pet
• in order of arrival
• by martial art
• by military branch
• missing Wikipedians
• by support for environmental causes
• by interest in punk music
• by degree of surrealism
• by language
  • Category:Wikipedians by language and Category:User languages
• by interest in literature
• by age
• by interest in sport
• Wikipedia:Userboxes/Interests

Listings on Meta-Wiki

• by birthday
• by college major or degree
• by gender
• by MBTI type
• by race
• by religion
• by sub-cultural affiliation
• by thefacebook name and location
• by year of birth

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.

• Cartographers
• Graphic Artists
• Photographers
• Transcribers
• Translators
• Technical Communicators
• Historians

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 Category:Wikipedian organizations

See also

• Category:Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:List of administrators
• Meta:Wikipedian
• Wikipedia:Facebook, for pictures of Wikipedians
• Wikipedia:Wikipediholic
• M:Wikipedians who blog
• Wikipedia:Editor activity indicator
• Wikipedia:Userboxes