Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Wikipedians are the people who write and edit articles for Wikipedia. There are currently more than 800 confessed contributors (although there are over 17,500 user accounts and an unknown number of anonymous contributors). This arguably makes a community - see m:The Wikipedia Community. To understand how we cooperate (and fail to or refuse to), please read meta.wikipedia.com. To read testimonies or theories about what motivates different people to participate in the project, see Wikipedia:Who, Why?
Here are different listings of all the contributors who have chosen to put their names. There are no particular requirements for Wikipedians' personal pages; some people write up a biography, some don't; some Wikipedians maintain a private catalogue of their work, some don't. Different listing methods have been created due to demand. If you put your name on a geographical listing such as Wikipedians/Australians, please don't neglect also to include your name on the alphabetical list.
Alphabetical listing
- For a complete (automatic) listing of all registered users see Special:Listusers this is a NON editable list
- For a voluntary alphabetical listing see Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians You may add your UserNmae here
Listing by country
Please list yourself both by your nationality and also by your place of current residence! For example, if John has moved to the United States from Ireland, he can put himself in both places at once (if he wants to).
- Albania
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Basque Country (officially part of Spain)
- Belgium
- Bermuda
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Catalonia (as a region with areas in Spain, Andorra and France)
- Chile
- China (including all parts of China: mainland, Hong Kong, Macao or Taiwan)(Might include Taiwan, but some people from Taiwan prefer a separate entry)
- Croatia
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Europe
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Guadeloupe
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iceland
- Ireland / Republic of Ireland
- Israel
- Iran
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Korea (including both parts of the Korean peninsula, North Korea and South Korea)
- Latvia
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mexico
- The Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Romania
- Russia
- Scotland
- Serbia & Montenegro
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
- If your country isn't listed above, add it!
Other listings
All lists are strictly voluntarily. Indeed, we encourage you to spend your time categorising our encyclopedic content, rather than categorising yourself!
- by culture
- in order of arrival
- by field of interest
- by organization
- by religion
- by race
- by sex
- by sub-cultural affiliation
- by instant messaging thingy
- by number of edits (cumulative)
- Wikipedians by number of edits in July 2003
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians by most recent edit (i.e. by number of articles in which they made the most recent edit)
- by inclusionism/deletionism
- by facial hair
- by favorite ice cream flavor
- Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians