Wikipedia:Wikipedians

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Wikipedians are the people who write and edit articles for Wikipedia. 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 or community or demonym. So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form The Wikipedia Community.

The number of account holders has grown to more than seven million (currently and precisely 7,292,387—counting registered user accounts), plus an unknown, but relatively large, number of unregistered contributors. Most account holders are not regular contributors, however (see special:Listusers for a full list). 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, it's optional and can be avoided.

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. Whatever one decides to do, every Wikipedian is valuable.

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[edit] Contribution style

See also: Wikipedia:Wikipediholic.

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 mainly contributing by writing and editing the contents of it, and, on the other hand, those who contribute to its administration or provide access to it for every single person on the planet.

Furthermore, there are a multitude of views and other contribution characteristics, which are represented well by common Wikipedia-related userboxes: Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia.

[edit] Lists of Wikipedians

This page also contains lists of Wikipedians. All lists are strictly voluntary. Individual Wikipedians may add themselves to appropriate lists if they wish.

We greatly encourage you to spend your time categorizing our encyclopedic content, rather than categorizing yourself!

[edit] Lists on Meta-Wiki

[edit] Skills-based lists

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.

[edit] Wikipedian associations

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

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