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[[File:10 sharing book cover background.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Anyone can put Wikipedia in the palms of their hands, including you. All you need to do is simply edit an article.]]
'''Wikipedians''' or '''editors''' are the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service|volunteers]] who write and edit [[Wikipedia]]'s articles, unlike [[WP:Reader|readers]] who simply read them. Anyone—including you—can become a Wikipedian by [[Wikipedia:Be bold|boldly]] [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|making changes]] when they find something that can be improved. To learn more about how, you can check out the basic [[Wikipedia:Tutorial|editing tutorial]] or the more detailed [[Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual|manual]].

Wikipedians do a wide variety of tasks, from [[Wikipedia:Typo Team|fixing typos]] and removing [[Wikipedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] to [[Wikipedia:Dispute resolution|resolving disputes]] and [[Portal:Featured content|perfecting content]], but unite in a [[Wikipedia:Prime objective|desire to make human knowledge available to every person on the planet]].

==Number of editors==
[[File:Active editors on English Wikipedia over time.png|right|thumb|Active and very active Wikipedians, as of 2015]]
{{Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Demographics}}
The English Wikipedia currently has [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}]]<ref>This number is dynamically updated with the [[WP:MAGIC|magic word]] NUMBEROFUSERS</ref> [[Wikipedia:Why create an account?|users]] who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly [[Special:Statistics|({{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}}]]<ref>This number is dynamically updated with the [[WP:MAGIC|magic word]] NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS</ref> have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions. An unknown but relatively large number of [[Wikipedia:IPs are human too|unregistered Wikipedians]] also contribute to the site.

{{as of|February 2015}}, about 12,000 editors were eligible to vote in the [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2015 Wikimedia Stewards Elections] on the basis of their edits on the English Wikipedia, based on having an edit count of at least 600 overall and 50 since August of 2014.  This is about one quarter of the number who had 600 edits overall.  (See the [[Wikipedia talk:Wikipedians|Talk]] page for details.)

===User permissions===

Some accounts have special [[Wikipedia:User rights|permissions]], including:<ref>These numbers are dynamically updated with the [[WP:MAGIC|magic word]] NUMBERINGROUP:groupname</ref>
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:abusefilter}} edit filter managers
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:accountcreator}} account creators
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:autoreviewer}} autopatrolled
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}} bots
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}} [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]]
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:checkuser}} checkusers
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:confirmed}} confirmed users
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:filemover}} file movers
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:founder}} founder (although there are two [[Founder of Wikipedia|co-founders]], [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] is the only member of this group)
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:import}} importers
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:ipblock-exempt}} IP block exemptions
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:massmessage-sender}} mass message senders
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:oversight}} oversighters
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:researcher}} researchers
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:reviewer}} [[Wikipedia:Reviewing|pending changes reviewers]]
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:rollbacker}} [[Wikipedia:Rollback|rollbackers]]
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} [[Wikipedia:Administrator|administrators]]
* {{NUMBERINGROUP:templateeditor}} template editors
* [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Course coordinator, instructor, online and campus volunteer |Users with EP course rights]]
** {{NUMBERINGROUP:epcampus}} EP campus volunteers
** {{NUMBERINGROUP:epcoordinator}} EP coordinators
** {{NUMBERINGROUP:epinstructor}} EP instructors
** {{NUMBERINGROUP:eponline}} EP online volunteers

Some user groups (such as stewards) act globally and thus they do not get local flags and local rights.

==Editing patterns==
The highest number of unique users making at least one edit during any given month was in March 2007.<ref>Ragesoss, [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-01-03/Editing stats|Editing frequency statistics show decline in participation]]. [[Wikipedia:Signpost]], January 3 2009</ref> Since then, the number of active users declined and has now largely plateaued. For example, in December 2010, 34,048 users made more than five edits during the month and 3,478 made more than 100 edits during the month; in December 2011, 33,948 users made more than five edits during the month and 3,489 made more than 100 edits during the month.<ref>[//stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editor_activity_levels Edit activity levels of registered users and bots per group of namespaces]</ref>

There is a definite seasonal pattern to editor activity, with more editors active during the North American school year than during its summer break.

About 250,000 new accounts are created every month.  About 300,000 editors have edited Wikipedia more than 10 times. {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} have performed an edit within the last 30 days.<ref>This number is dynamically updated with the [[WP:MAGIC|magic word]] NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS</ref>

Most people creating accounts don't save any edits.  About 25% of newly registered accounts save at least one edit, usually the same day that the account was created.  Only about 1% of newly created accounts (about 4% of users ever making an edit) are still editing during the following month (30 to 60 days after account creation).

The Wikipedians with the 5,000 highest edit counts are [[Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of edits|listed here]].

==Demographics==
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Based on a survey of over 58,000 self-selected Wikipedians by a group at [[United Nations University|UNU-Merit]] published in March 2010, contributors can be split into four approximately equal age-groups: those under 18, those between 18 and 22, those from 22 to 30 and the remainder between 30 and 85.<ref name=UNU-M>{{cite web|title = Wikipedia Survey - Overview of Results|url = http://www.wikipediastudy.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf|work = Wikipedia Study|publisher = UNU-MERIT|accessdate = 8 December 2015|author = Glott, Ruediger|author2 = Schmidt, Phillipp|author3 = Ghosh, Rishab|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110728182835/http://www.wikipediastudy.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf|archivedate = 28 August 2011|dead-url = usurped}}</ref> About 23% of contributors have completed degree-level education, 26% are undergraduates and 45% have secondary education or less. 87% are men and 13% women. The survey included users of 22 language editions in 231 countries.<ref name=UNU-M/>

Various information about individual Wikipedians is available on the [[Wikipedia:User page|user pages]] of Wikipedians who choose to create them.

Information on the gender gap can be found at [[meta:Gender gap]].  The significant and stable under-representation of women results in persistently unbalanced coverage (e.g. articles related to football are much more developed than articles related to motherhood{{dubious|date=February 2015}}) in Wikipedia.{{Cn|reason=while the gist is supported, this need more careful wording - accessing the peer reviewed research might help with this}}  The gender gap may be driven significantly by Wikipedia's conflict-oriented culture.  Experienced female editors can be very successful—they are more likely to become administrators than men—but they are more likely to leave if treated aggressively in discussions, especially as new editors, when their good-faith contributions are more likely to be reverted than a similarly good-faith contribution by a man.<ref>{{cite conference |url=http://www.grouplens.org/node/466 |author=Lam, S. K.; Uduwage, A.; Dong, Z.; Sen, S.; Musicant, D. R.; Terveen, L.; Riedl, J. |title=WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance |date=2011 |booktitle=WikiSym}}</ref>

==Personality==
Researchers around the world have begun to identify key personality traits in Wikipedians. According to a study published in 2008, Wikipedia members are more likely than non-members to locate their 'real me' online—that is, to feel more comfortable expressing their "real" selves online than off.<ref name=Amichai2008a>Amichai-Hamburger, Y. et al. [http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2007.0225 "Personality Characteristics of Wikipedia Members"], ''CyberPsychology & Behavior'', Vol. 11, No. 6 (2008).</ref> This corresponds with more general findings that Internet communities tend to attract users who are introverted offline but more able to open up and feel empowered on the Web.<ref>Amichai-Hamburger, Y., Wainapel G., Fox S. “On the Internet no one knows I’m an introvert: extroversion, neuroticism and Internet interaction.” CyberPsychology & Behavior (2002).</ref><ref>Amichai-Hamburger, Y., McKenna, K., Tal, S. “E-empowerment: Empowerment by the Internet.” Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 24 (2008).</ref> A gender difference was found in terms of extroversion: whereas female Wikipedia members were on average more introverted than female non-members, male members were just as extroverted as males in the control group. Wikipedians have also been found to be less agreeable, and less open, as defined by psychology’s [[Big Five personality traits]].<ref name=Amichai2008a/>

==Motivations for contributing==
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In November 2007, the most commonly indicated motives were "fun", "ideology", and "values", whereas the least frequently indicated motives were "career", "social", and "protective" (as in "reducing guilt over personal privilege").<ref name=Nov>{{cite journal|last=Nov|first=Oded|title=What Motivates Wikipedians?|journal=Communications of the ACM|year=2007|volume=50|issue=11|pages=60–64|url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1297797.1297798 |accessdate=11 August 2011|doi=10.1145/1297797.1297798}}</ref>

==Nomenclature==
It has been suggested{{by whom}} that Wikipedist would be a more appropriate name, as an [[wikt:encyclopedist|encyclopedist]] is someone who contributes to an [[encyclopedia]]. ''Wikipedian'', though, suggests being part of a group, community or [[demonym]] (a resident of a locality). So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form the [[Wikipedia:Community portal|Wikipedia Community]]. The term "Wikimedian" is also widely used to include contributors to all the projects supported by the [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia Foundation]].

==Contribution styles== <!--Wikipedia: Doers and discussers redirects here-->
{{See also|Wikipedia:Wikipediholic|label 1=Wikipediholic|m:Conflicting_Wikipedia_philosophies|label 2=Conflicting philosophies}}
Some Wikipedians [[WP:WC|welcome newcomers]]; some Wikipedians [[WP:KC|award those who they feel deserve awards]]. Some upload images or [[WP:FFU|help others do so]]; some work on history articles; some [[WP:TYPO|clean up grammar]]; and still others [[WP:HG|work]] on [[WP:TW|reverting]] [[WP:VAN|vandalism]]. Many take on all of these tasks; some, of course, take on none. Whatever one decides to do, every Wikipedian is a valuable member of the community.

Wikipedians who contribute mainly by writing and editing the contents of Wikipedia, without interacting much on [[Help:Using talk pages|Talk]] or [[Wikipedia:Administration|administrative]] pages, are sometimes called [[Meta:Exopedianism|exopedians]], whereas those who spend significant time on such community interactions are contrasted as [[Meta:Metapedianism|metapedians]]. A multitude of views and other contribution characteristics are represented well by common Wikipedia-related [[Wikipedia:Userboxes|userboxes]]: [[Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia]].

==See also==
* [[WP:ANTIWP|Anti-Wikipedian]]
* [[Community of Wikipedia]]
* [[English Wikipedia#Users and editors|Users and editors of English Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Statistics]]
* [[Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia]]
* [[Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia]]

;Meta-Wiki
* [[Meta:Wikipedian|Wikipedian]]
* [[Meta:Wikipedians who blog|Wikimedians who blog]]
* [[Meta:Communication Projects Group/Projects/Success stories - how has Wikimedia changed your life?|Wikipedian success stories]]
* [[Meta:Editor Survey 2011|Editor Survey 2011]]

;Categorisation
* [[:Category:Wikipedians]] – for more information about Wikipedians
* [[Wikipedia:User categories]] – for information about Wikipedian categories
* [[Wikipedia:User categorisation]] – a defunct [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]] for user categorisation
;Other
* [[Wikipedia:Facebook directory]] – for pictures of Wikipedians
* [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles]] – for Wikipedians who are themselves notable
* [[Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians]]
* [[Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Wikipedians}}
* [//stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm Wikipedia Statistics English]
* [[:meta:Chapters Dialogue/Insights/Motivation|Motivation of Wikimedians]]

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