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, 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 eight million (currently and precisely 8,418,304—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 individual Wikipedians is available on the user pages of Wikipedians who choose to create them.
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.
[edit] Contribution styles
- 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 its contents while there are also those who contribute to its 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