Wikipedia:Wikipedians
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Wikipedians are people who write and edit the pages for Wikipedia.
Anyone can be a Wikipedian -- including you. Just click the edit link at the top of any page, or one of the ones at the beginning of each section. Visit the editing tutorial to learn more.
You can browse or search the full user list, or request a random Wikipedian's user page.
[edit] Demographics
The number of named accounts has grown to millions (currently 10,063,420). Most account holders are not regular contributors, however. An unknown, but relatively large, number of unregistered contributors also contribute. 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 individual Wikipedians is available on the user pages of Wikipedians who choose to create them.
[edit] Nomenclature
It has been suggested that Wikipedist would be a more appropriate name, as an encyclopedist is someone who contributes to an encyclopedia. "Wikipedian", though, suggests being part of a group, community or demonym. So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form The Wikipedia Community.
[edit] Contribution styles
Some Wikipedians welcome newcomers; some Wikipedians award those who they feel deserve awards. Some upload images; some work on history articles; some clean up grammar; and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all of these tasks. Unfortunately, some work on creating vandalism, making more work for others. Whatever one decides to do (unless it is merely to vandalize), every Wikipedian is presumed valuable.
Wikipedians have different characteristics on many aspects, of which boldness is one: On one hand there are 1RRs (Wikipedia:1RR), who rather discuss than engage in edit wars. On the other, there are bold ones (Wikipedia:Be bold), who are rather doers than discussers.
In addition, there are Wikipedians who contribute mainly by writing and editing the contents of Wikipedia, and there are those who contribute to Wikipedia's administration or provide access to it for every single person on the planet.
Furthermore, a multitude of views and other contribution characteristics are represented well by common Wikipedia-related userboxes: Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia.
[edit] See also
- Meta-Wiki
- Categorisation
- Category:Wikipedians, for information about Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:User categories, for information about Wikipedian categories
- Wikipedia:User categorisation – a defunct WikiProject for user categorisation
- Other
- Wikipedia:Facebook, for pictures of Wikipedians
