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<b>Wikipedians</b> are the people who write and edit articles for [[Wikipedia]]. There are currently 230 confessed contributors. This arguably makes a community - see [[Wikipedia commentary/The Wikipedia Community]]. |
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{{Information page|shortcut=WP:EDITORS |shortcut2=WP:USERS}} |
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{{nutshell|Anyone can edit Wikipedia and become a Wikipedian!<br/>There are currently {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} Wikipedia accounts, of which {{NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS}} have made at least one edit during the last month.}} |
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[[File:10 sharing book cover background.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Wikipedia is in the palm of your hand—all you need to do is edit an article.]] |
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{{Human administration}} |
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'''Wikipedians''' are [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is a volunteer service|volunteers]] who contribute to [[Wikipedia]] by [[Help:Editing|editing]] its pages, unlike [[WP:Reader|readers]] who simply read the [[Wikipedia:What is an article?|articles]]. Anyone—including you—can become a Wikipedian by [[Wikipedia:Be bold|boldly]] [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|making changes]] when they find something that can be added or improved. To learn more about how to do this, you can check out the basic [[Help:Introduction|editing tutorial]] or the more detailed [[Help: Wikipedia: The Missing Manual|manual]]. |
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<b>Here is a list of all the contributors who have put their name on this list. </b> There are no particular requirements for Wikipedians' personal pages; some people write up bios, some don't; some Wikipedians maintain a private catalogue of their work, some don't. We begin with lists of people by place and by time of arrival, '''followed by a <i>complete</i> listing.''' I.e., please, if you put your name on a place listing such as [[Wikipedians/Australians|/Australians]], don't neglect also to include your name on the main list. |
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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 [[Wikipedia:Featured content|perfecting content]], but are united in a [[Wikipedia:Prime objective|desire to make human knowledge available to every person on the planet]]. |
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<h3>Li sting by country:</h3> |
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:Please list yourself both by your nationality and also by your place of current residence! E.g., if John has moved to the U.S. from Ireland, he can put himself in both places at once (if he wants to). If you list yourself here, pl ease also list yourself on the complete alphabetical listing, below. |
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:[[Wikipedians/Andorra|Andorra]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Australia|Australia]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia and Herzegovina]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Canada|Canada]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Chile|Chile]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Denmark|Denmark]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Finland|Finland]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Germany|Germany]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Hungary|Hungary]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Republic of Ireland|Republic of Ireland]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Israel|Israel]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Italy|Italy]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/The Netherlands|The Netherlands]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Malta|Malta]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Mexico|Mexico]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/New Zealand|New Zealand]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Norway|Norway]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Paraguay|Paraguay]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Poland|Poland]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Portugal|Portugal]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Russia|Russia]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Singapore|Singapore]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/South Africa|South Africa]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Spain|Spain]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Sweden|Sweden]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Switzerland|Switzerland]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/Turkey|Turkey]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] |
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:[[Wikipedians/United States|United States]] |
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:''We just started the above listing--if your country isn't listed, add it!'' |
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==Number of editors== |
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<h3>[[Wikipedians/History|Historical Listing]]</h3> |
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{{Wikipedia editor graph}} |
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If you add yourself here, please make sure you also do so on the alphabetical listing below. |
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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 [[Wikipedia:Dashboard|community discussions]]. |
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In 2023, 812,635 registered editors made at least one edit;<ref>https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/80211</ref> about half of these were new accounts making their first (and often only) edit.<ref>https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/80159</ref> There are about 10,000 higher-volume experienced editors active during a typical month.<ref>https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/78064. This particular query counts the number of registered editors who averaged at least one edit per day during the last month, with a minimum total of 500 edits and a minimum account age of one year.</ref> In a given month, more than 5,000 editors make at least 100 edits.<ref>[https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/contributing/editors/normal%7Cline%7Call%7Cactivity_level~5..24-edits*25..99-edits*100..-edits%7Cmonthly Editors graph] at stats.wikimedia.org </ref> |
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An unknown but relatively large number of [[Wikipedia:IPs are human too|unregistered Wikipedians]] also contribute to the site. As of 2012, most logged-in editors had edited as unregistered Wikipedians before registering their accounts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pande |first=Mani |date=2012-05-10 |title=59 percent of logged-in Wikipedians started as anonymous editors |url=https://diff.wikimedia.org/2012/05/10/59-percent-wikipedians-started-anonymous/ |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=Diff |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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<h3>Complete (i.e., people of all nationalities) alphabetical listing</h3> |
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# [[AdamJ]] |
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As of February 2015, when about 12,000 editors were eligible to vote in the [[:meta:Stewards/Elections 2015|Wikimedia Stewards Elections]], their eligibility was based on their English Wikipedia edit count. It applied to those who had an edit count of at least 600 overall and 50 since August 2014. This was about one-quarter of the number of Wikipedians who had 600 edits overall. (See the [[Wikipedia talk:Wikipedians|Talk]] page for details.) |
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# [[Aidan Elliott-McCrea]] |
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# [[Ajdecon]] |
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===User permissions=== |
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# [[Alan Millar]] |
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{{see also|Wikipedia:Administration#Human and legal administration}} |
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# [[Wikipedians/Alex|Alex]] |
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# [[Alan D]] |
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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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# [[Aleksandar Guzijan]] |
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# [[AlexKrupp]] |
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# [[AlexanderBostrom]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:accountcreator}} [[Wikipedia:Account creator|account creators]] |
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# [[ALittleLuck]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:sysop}} [[Wikipedia:Administrators|administrators]] |
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# [[Amir]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:autoreviewer}} [[Wikipedia:Autopatrolled|autopatrollers]] |
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# [[Amirabelli]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:bot}} [[Wikipedia:Bots|bots]] |
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# [[Anarres]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:bureaucrat}} [[Wikipedia:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]] |
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# [[Anatoly Vorobey]] a.k.a. AV |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:checkuser}} [[Wikipedia:CheckUser|checkusers]] |
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# [[Anders Torlind]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:confirmed}} [[Wikipedia:confirmed|confirmed users]] |
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# [[Andre Engels]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:abusefilter}} [[ Wikipedia:Edit filter|edit filter managers]] |
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# [[Andrew Blair]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:eventcoordinator}} [[Wikipedia:Event coordinator|event coordinators]] |
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# [[Andy Jewell]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:extendedconfirmed}} [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Extended confirmed users|extended confirmed users]] |
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# [[Andy Leighton]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:filemover}} [[Wikipedia:File mover|file movers]] |
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# [[The Anome]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:founder}} [[Wikipedia:Founder|founder]]<ref>Although there are two [[Founder of Wikipedia|co-founders]], [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo Wales]] is the only member of this group, as he is the only one of the three who still contributes to Wikipedia.</ref> |
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# [[Antti Kaihola]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:import}} [[wp:Importers|importers]] |
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# [[Ap]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:ipblock-exempt}} [[Wikipedia:User access levels#IP block exemption|IP block exempt users]] |
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# [[-- April| April]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:massmessage-sender}} [[Wikipedia:Mass message senders|mass message senders]] |
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# [[Wikipedians/arcade|arcade]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:patroller}} [[Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Reviewers|new page reviewers]] (new page patrollers) |
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# [[Arco Scheepen]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:suppress}} [[Wikipedia:Oversight|oversighters]] |
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# [[Aripap]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:extendedmover}} [[Wikipedia:Page mover|page movers]] |
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# [[Wikipedians/Armillary|Armillary]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:reviewer}} [[Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes|pending changes reviewers]] |
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# [[Artlung]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:researcher}} [[WP:RESEARCHER|researchers]] |
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# [[AstroNomer]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:rollbacker}} [[Wikipedia:Rollback|rollbackers]] |
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# [[Atlas 2091]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:templateeditor}} [[Wikipedia:User access levels#Template editor|template editors]] |
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# [[Awaterl]] |
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* {{NUMBERINGROUP:copyviobot}} [[Wikipedia:Copyviobot|copyright violation bots]] |
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# [[AxelBoldt]] |
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Some user groups (such as stewards) act globally, and thus they do not get local flags and local rights. |
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# [[AyeSpy]] |
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# [[Wikipedians/Belltower|Belltower]] |
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# [[BenBaker]] |
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{{Registered editors by edit count}} |
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# [[Berek]] |
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{{clear}} |
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# [[Bignose]], a.k.a [[Ben Finney]] |
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# [[BlackGriffen]] |
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==Demographics== |
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# [[BlckKnght]] |
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{{Update-section}} |
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# [[Bob Waller]] |
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{{Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Demographics}} |
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# [[Bomfog]] |
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# [[Yargo|Bonetti Yargo C.]] |
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[[United Nations University|UNU-Merit]] (United Nations University-Merit) completed the 2010 [[:meta:Research:UNU-MERIT Wikipedia survey]] of Wikipedia users, including both contributors (registered and unregistered) and readers.<ref name="UNU-M">{{cite web |last1=Glott |first1=Ruediger |last2=Schmidt |first2=Phillipp |last3= Ghosh |first3=Rishab |date=March 2010 |title=Wikipedia Survey—Overview of Results |url=http://www.wikipediastudy.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf |url-status=usurped |work=Wikipedia Study |publisher=UNU-MERIT |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728182835/http://www.wikipediastudy.org/docs/Wikipedia_Overview_15March2010-FINAL.pdf |archive-date=28 July 2011}}</ref> 176,192 people chose to participate, approximately 58,000 of whom were contributors to Wikipedia. Many of the findings were reported as an aggregate and were not separated by user type. Only the statistics relevant to Wikipedians are presented. In 2011, the WMF (Wikimedia Foundation) presented a questionnaire to logged-in Wikipedia editors (does not include unregistered Wikipedians) to gain a better understanding of the demographics, perceptions and motivations of Wikipedians.<ref name="2011 WMF Survey">{{cite web|title=Wikipedia Editor Study: Results From the Editor Survey, April 2011|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Editor_Survey_Report_-_April_2011.pdf|website=Wikimedia|publisher=Wikimedia Foundation|access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> Over 5,000 people responded to the survey. Here are the results of both surveys: |
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# [[Branteaton|Brant Eaton]] |
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# [[BruceMiller]] |
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{| class="wikitable" |
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# [[Brussee]] |
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|+ Editors by age<ref name="2011 WMF Survey"/> |
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# [[Bryan Derksen]] |
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! scope="col" | Age group |
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# [[BryceHarrington]] |
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! scope="col" | WMF (%) |
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# [[Buttonius]] |
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# [[Buzco]] |
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|12–17||13 percent |
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# [[Calypso]] |
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# [[user:Carey E vans|Carey Evans]] |
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|18–21||14 percent |
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# [[Cayzle]] |
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# [[Cdani]] |
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|22–29||26 percent |
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# [[ChaTo|ChaTo!]] |
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# [[Chuck Smith]], founder of [http://eo.wikipedia.com Esperanta Vikipedio] |
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|30–39||19 percent |
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# [[clasqm]] |
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# [[Wikipedians/ClaudineChionh|ClaudineChionh]] (the Wikipedian formerly known as [[Claudine]]) |
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|40+||28 percent |
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# [[CliffordAdams]], author of [[UseModWiki]] |
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# [[Cmontpla]] |
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# [[Coasting]] |
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UNU-Merit reported the average age of contributors at 26.14 years, but did not provide a greater breakdown of age by user type.<ref name=UNU-M/> |
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# [[Colin dellow]] |
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# [[CorinneLightweaver]] |
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# [[Cpt]] |
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|+ Editors by education completed |
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# [[Creaktop]] |
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! scope="col" | Education level completed |
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# [[Wikipedians/The Cunctator|The Cunctator]] |
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! scope="col" | WMF (%) |
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# [[CYD]] |
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! scope="col" | UNU-Merit (%) |
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# [[D. Joe Anderson]] |
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# [[Wikipedians/Dachshund|Dachshund]] |
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|Primary||9||11 |
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# [[Damian Yerrick]], whose faux pas ultimately resulted in the creation of this geographic system |
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# [[DanKeshet]] |
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|Secondary||30||34 |
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# [[Dave McKee]] |
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# [[DaveRaftery]] |
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|Undergraduate||35||26 |
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# [[Dick Beldin]], author of much statistics |
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# [[DigitalSorceress]] |
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|Masters||18||18 |
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# [[Dmerrill]] |
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# [[DonNoyes]] |
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|PhD||8||4 |
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# [[Don Kenney]] |
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# [[DrBob]] |
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|Other||NR||6 |
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# [[User:Dreamyshade]] |
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# [[Drj]] |
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# [[Dweir]] |
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WMF reported 43% of respondents are currently enrolled in school or post-secondary education.<ref name="2011 WMF Survey"/> |
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# [[Ed Poor]] |
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# [[Edgar]] |
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According to the WMF findings, the top three countries where Wikipedia contributors reside are the United States (20%), Germany (12%), and Russia (7%). The primary language of Wikipedia contributors is English (52%) followed by German (18%) with Russian and Spanish coming in third at 10% each. The UNU-Merit study did not breakdown language and country of residence in terms of type of participation with Wikipedia. |
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# [[Eean]] |
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# [[EdwardOConnor]] |
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According to UNU-Merit, 87 percent of Wikipedians are men and 13 percent are women.<ref name=UNU-M/> |
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# [[Wikipedians/Enter the Dragon|Enter the Dragon]] |
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# [[the Epopt]] |
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According to the 2011 WMF survey, although the percentage of female editors continues to increase, ninety percent of Wikipedians are male, nine percent female, and one percent transgender/transsexual.<ref name="2011 WMF Survey"/> |
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# [[ErdemTuzun]] |
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# [[Eob]] |
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Experienced female editors can be very successful—they are more likely to become administrators than men—but as new editors, their good-faith contributions are more likely to be reverted than good-faith contributions by a man.<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Lam |first1=S. K. |last2=Uduwage |first2=A. |last3=Dong |first3=Z. |last4=Sen |first4=S. |last5=Musicant |first5=D. R. |last6=Terveen |first6=L. |last7=Riedl |first7=J. |date=October 2011 |url=http://www.grouplens.org/node/466 |title=WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance |book-title=WikiSym |publisher=ACM |doi=10.1145/2038558.2038560 |pages=1–10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726121710/http://www.grouplens.org/node/466 |archive-date=26 July 2011}}</ref> |
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# [[Eventi]] |
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# [[firepink]] |
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More information regarding the gender gap can be found at [[meta:Gender gap|Gender gap]]. |
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# [[Flavor]] |
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# [[F. Lee Horn]] |
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In an October 2023 representative survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, [[YouGov]] found that 7% had ever edited Wikipedia, that 20% had ever considered doing so who had not, that 55% had never done so and had never considered doing so, and that 17% had never used Wikipedia.<ref>{{cite web|title=YouGov Survey: Wikipedia|publisher=YouGov|url=https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Wikipedia_poll_results.pdf|access-date=January 26, 2024}}</ref> |
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# [[Friedger]] |
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# [[Gareth Owen]] |
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# [[General Wesc]] |
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# [[Gerald Squelart]] |
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# [[Geronimo Jones]] |
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! colspan="3" | October 2023 YouGov survey on U.S. editors |
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# [[Gimbo]] |
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# [[Goochelaar]] |
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! Demographic !! % of demographic<br>respondents !! Demographic<br>sample size |
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# [[Grasso]] |
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# [[Greg Carter]] |
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! colspan="3" | Gender |
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# [[Greg Lindahl]] |
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# [[Hank Ramsey]] |
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| Male || 9% || 416 |
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# [[hornlo]] (loh) |
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# [[Ian]] |
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| Female || 5% || 582 |
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# [[Invictus]] |
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# [[J Hofmann Kemp]] a.k.a. [[JHK]] |
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! colspan="3" | Age |
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# [[Jagged]] |
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# [[JamieTheFoool]] |
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| 18–29 years || 14% || 122 |
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# [[James]] |
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# [[Janet Davis]] |
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| 30–44 years || 12% || 206 |
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# [[Jason Scribner]] |
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# [[Javier de la Cueva]] |
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| 45–64 years || 3% || 394 |
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# [[Jerry Muelver]] |
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# [[Jimbo Wales]], the other cofounder of this great project |
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| 65 years or older || 1% || 276 |
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# [[Jimbosworldorg]] |
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# [[Jlnd]] |
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! colspan="3" | [[Race and ethnicity in the United States|Race]] |
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# [[John Lynch]] - a.k.a. [[Jml ynch]] |
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# [[Joakim Ziegler]] |
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| [[White Americans|White]] || 6% || 611 |
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# [[Joao]] |
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# [[Joel Schlosberg]] |
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| [[African Americans|Black]] || 5% || 119 |
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# [[John Abbe]] |
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# [[H. Jonat]] |
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| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] || 13% || 155 |
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# [[Jorge Tamayo]] |
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# [[Josh Grosse]] |
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| Other || 10% || 113 |
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# [[JoshFuller]] |
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# [[Jpmartin]] |
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! colspan="3" | [[Political parties in the United States|Party ID]] |
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# [[JStoddW]] |
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# [[Jtnelson]] |
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| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] || 12% || 362 |
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# [[Juuitchan]] |
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# [[Justfred]] |
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| [[Independent voter|Independent]] || 5% || 371 |
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# [[Jzcool]] |
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# [[Kajtek]] |
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| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] || 4% || 265 |
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# [[Kami kazeArchon]] |
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# [[KlausSeistrup]] |
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! colspan="3" | [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 vote]] |
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# [[Koyaanis Qatsi]] |
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# [[Kowloonese]] |
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| [[Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign|Biden]] || 11% || 367 |
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# [[Kragen]] |
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# [[Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz]] |
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| [[Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign|Trump]] || 4% || 338 |
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# [[Kvikeg]] |
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# [[LA2]] |
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! colspan="3" | [[Household income in the United States|Family income]] |
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# [[Lane Wright]] |
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# [[Larry Sanger]], a.k.a [[LMS]], cofounder of Wikipedia and editor-in-chief of Nupedia |
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| Less than $50,000 || 6% || 423 |
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# [[User:LC|LC]] |
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# [[Lee Daniel Crocker]] |
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| $50,000 to $100,000 || 8% || 277 |
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# [[LinusTolke]] |
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# [[user:Luis Oliveira|Luis Oliveira]] |
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| $100,000 or more || 11% || 209 |
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# [[LunoMat]] |
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# [[Wikipedians/Magnus|Magnus]] Forrester-Barker |
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! colspan="3" | [[List of regions of the United States|Region]] |
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# [[Magnus Manske]] |
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# [[Malcolm Farmer]] |
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| [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] || 6% || 164 |
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# [[ManningBartlett|Manning Bartlett]] |
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# [[Marco Maggesi]] |
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| [[Midwestern United States|Midwestern]] || 6% || 217 |
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# [[Mark Christensen]] |
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# [[Mark Jeays]] |
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| [[Southern United States|Southern]] || 5% || 393 |
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# [[Mark Ryan]] |
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# [[Marj Tiefert]] |
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| [[Western United States|Western]] || 13% || 224 |
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# [[Masher]] |
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# [[Maveric149]] (Daniel Lee Mayer) |
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Researchers 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>{{cite journal |last1=Amichai-Hamburger |first1=Y. |first2=Naama |last2=Lamdan |first3=Rinat |last3=Madiel |first4=Tsahi |last4=Hayat |date=November 2008 |title=Personality Characteristics of Wikipedia Members |journal=CyberPsychology & Behavior |volume=11 |number=6 |pages=679–81 |pmid=18954273 |doi=10.1089/cpb.2007.0225}}</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>{{cite journal |last1=Amichai-Hamburger |first1=Y. |last2=Wainapel |first2=G. |last3=Fox |first3=S. |date=May 2002 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11346051 |title=On the Internet no one knows I'm an introvert: extroversion, neuroticism and Internet interaction |journal=CyberPsychology & Behavior |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=125–128 |doi=10.1089/109493102753770507 |pmid=12025878}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Amichai-Hamburger |first1=Y. |last2=McKenna |first2=K. |last3=Tal |first3=S. |date=September 2008 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/222367002 |title=E-empowerment: Empowerment by the Internet |journal=Computers in Human Behavior |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=1776–1789 |doi=10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.002}}</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. |
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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 |date=November 2007 |url=http://faculty.poly.edu/~onov/Nov_Wikipedia_motivations.pdf |url-status=live |title=What Motivates Wikipedians? |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=50 |issue=11 |pages=60–64 |doi=10.1145/1297797.1297798 |s2cid=16517355 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423151707/http://faculty.poly.edu/~onov/Nov_Wikipedia_motivations.pdf |archive-date=23 April 2012}}</ref> |
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One could argue 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]]. |
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Some Wikipedians [[WP:WC|welcome newcomers]]; some Wikipedians [[WP:KC|award those whom 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 these tasks; some, of course, take on none. Whatever one decides to do, every Wikipedian is a valuable member of the community. |
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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]]. |
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* [[Meta:Communication Projects Group/Projects/Success stories - how has Wikimedia changed your life?|Wikipedian success stories]] |
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This is an information page. It is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wikipedia's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting. |
This page in a nutshell: Anyone can edit Wikipedia and become a Wikipedian! There are currently 47,400,718 Wikipedia accounts, of which 121,501 have made at least one edit during the last month. |
Human administration | |||
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Wikimedia Board of Trustees | |||
Wikipedians | |||
Wikimedia staff | |||
Stewards | |||
Arbitration Committee | |||
Bureaucrats | |||
Administrators |
Wikipedians are volunteers who contribute to Wikipedia by editing its pages, unlike readers who simply read the articles. Anyone—including you—can become a Wikipedian by boldly making changes when they find something that can be added or improved. To learn more about how to do this, you can check out the basic editing tutorial or the more detailed manual.
Wikipedians do a wide variety of tasks, from fixing typos and removing vandalism to resolving disputes and perfecting content, but are united in a desire to make human knowledge available to every person on the planet.
Number of editors
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. |
The English Wikipedia currently has 47,400,718[2] users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly (121,501[3] have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions. In 2023, 812,635 registered editors made at least one edit;[4] about half of these were new accounts making their first (and often only) edit.[5] There are about 10,000 higher-volume experienced editors active during a typical month.[6] In a given month, more than 5,000 editors make at least 100 edits.[7]
An unknown but relatively large number of unregistered Wikipedians also contribute to the site. As of 2012, most logged-in editors had edited as unregistered Wikipedians before registering their accounts.[8]
As of February 2015, when about 12,000 editors were eligible to vote in the Wikimedia Stewards Elections, their eligibility was based on their English Wikipedia edit count. It applied to those who had an edit count of at least 600 overall and 50 since August 2014. This was about one-quarter of the number of Wikipedians who had 600 edits overall. (See the Talk page for details.)
User permissions
Some accounts have special permissions, including:[9]
- 13 account creators
- 859 administrators
- 4,782 autopatrollers
- 295 bots
- 15 bureaucrats
- 54 checkusers
- 565 confirmed users
- 141 edit filter managers
- 118 event coordinators
- 70,336 extended confirmed users
- 394 file movers
- 1 founder[10]
- 2 importers
- 986 IP block exempt users
- 54 mass message senders
- 818 new page reviewers (new page patrollers)
- 43 oversighters
- 409 page movers
- 7,971 pending changes reviewers
- 3 researchers
- 6,827 rollbackers
- 189 template editors
- 2 copyright violation bots
Some user groups (such as stewards) act globally, and thus they do not get local flags and local rights.
If you have made... | you are about 1 in | then you rank in the... | or the... | That's more than... |
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1 edit | 3 | top 30% of all users | top 14,200,000 of all users | 70% of all users |
2 edits | 5 | top 20% of all users | top 9,400,000 of all users | 80% of all users |
5 edits | 10 | top 10% of all users | top 4,700,000 of all users | 90% of all users |
10 edits | 20 | top 5% of all users (the autoconfirmed) |
top 2,370,000 of all users | 95% of all users |
100 edits | 100 | top 1% of all users | top 474,000 of all users | 99% of all users |
500 edits | 400 | top 0.25% of all users (the extended confirmed) |
top 118,000 of all users | 99.75% of all users |
1,000 edits | 1,000 | top 0.1% of all users | top 47,000 of all users | 99.9% of all users |
10,000 edits | 4,000 | top 0.025% of all users | top 11,800 of all users | 99.975% of all users |
25,000 edits | 10,000 | top 0.01% of all users | top 4,700 of all users | 99.99% of all users |
50,000 edits | 20,000 | top 0.005% of all users | top 2,300 of all users | 99.995% of all users |
100,000 edits | 50,000 | top 0.002% of all users | top 900 of all users | 99.998% of all users |
250,000 edits | 200,000 | top 0.0005% of all users | top 200 of all users | 99.9995% of all users |
500,000 edits | 1,000,000 | top 0.0001% of all users | top 50 of all users | 99.9999% of all users |
1,000,000 edits | 3,300,000 | top 0.000031% of contributors | top 13 of all contributors | 99.99997% of all contributors |
For the purposes of this table, a "user" is a person who has a registered account on the English Wikipedia. |
If you have made... | you are about 1 in | then you rank in the... | or the... | That's more than... |
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1 edit | 1 | – | one of 14,200,000 contributors | – |
2 edits | 1-2 | top 65% of contributors | top 9,200,000 of all contributors | 35% of all contributors |
5 edits | 3 | top 30% of contributors | top 4,200,000 of all contributors | 70% of all contributors |
10 edits | 5 | top 20% of contributors (the autoconfirmed) |
top 2,844,000 of all contributors | 80% of all contributors |
100 edits | 40 | top 2.5% of contributors | top 355,000 of all contributors | 97.5% of all contributors |
500 edits | 133 | top 0.75% of contributors (the extended confirmed) |
top 106,000 of all contributors | 99.25% of all contributors |
1,000 edits | 200 | top 0.5% of contributors | top 71,000 of all contributors | 99.5% of all contributors |
10,000 edits | 1,000 | top 0.1% of contributors | top 14,200 of all contributors | 99.9% of all contributors |
25,000 edits | 3,333 | top 0.03% of contributors | top 4,200 of all contributors | 99.97% of all contributors |
50,000 edits | 6,666 | top 0.015% of contributors | top 2,100 of all contributors | 99.985% of all contributors |
100,000 edits | 14,000 | top 0.007% of contributors | top 900 of all contributors | 99.993% of all contributors |
250,000 edits | 66,666 | top 0.0015% of contributors | top 200 of all contributors | 99.9985% of all contributors |
500,000 edits | 250,000 | top 0.0004% of contributors | top 50 of all contributors | 99.9996% of all contributors |
For the purposes of this table, a "contributor" is an account with at least one published edit on the English Wikipedia. |
Demographics
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UNU-Merit (United Nations University-Merit) completed the 2010 meta:Research:UNU-MERIT Wikipedia survey of Wikipedia users, including both contributors (registered and unregistered) and readers.[11] 176,192 people chose to participate, approximately 58,000 of whom were contributors to Wikipedia. Many of the findings were reported as an aggregate and were not separated by user type. Only the statistics relevant to Wikipedians are presented. In 2011, the WMF (Wikimedia Foundation) presented a questionnaire to logged-in Wikipedia editors (does not include unregistered Wikipedians) to gain a better understanding of the demographics, perceptions and motivations of Wikipedians.[12] Over 5,000 people responded to the survey. Here are the results of both surveys:
Age group | WMF (%) |
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12–17 | 13 percent |
18–21 | 14 percent |
22–29 | 26 percent |
30–39 | 19 percent |
40+ | 28 percent |
UNU-Merit reported the average age of contributors at 26.14 years, but did not provide a greater breakdown of age by user type.[11]
Education level completed | WMF (%) | UNU-Merit (%) |
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Primary | 9 | 11 |
Secondary | 30 | 34 |
Undergraduate | 35 | 26 |
Masters | 18 | 18 |
PhD | 8 | 4 |
Other | NR | 6 |
WMF reported 43% of respondents are currently enrolled in school or post-secondary education.[12]
According to the WMF findings, the top three countries where Wikipedia contributors reside are the United States (20%), Germany (12%), and Russia (7%). The primary language of Wikipedia contributors is English (52%) followed by German (18%) with Russian and Spanish coming in third at 10% each. The UNU-Merit study did not breakdown language and country of residence in terms of type of participation with Wikipedia.
According to UNU-Merit, 87 percent of Wikipedians are men and 13 percent are women.[11]
According to the 2011 WMF survey, although the percentage of female editors continues to increase, ninety percent of Wikipedians are male, nine percent female, and one percent transgender/transsexual.[12]
Experienced female editors can be very successful—they are more likely to become administrators than men—but as new editors, their good-faith contributions are more likely to be reverted than good-faith contributions by a man.[13]
More information regarding the gender gap can be found at Gender gap.
In an October 2023 representative survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, YouGov found that 7% had ever edited Wikipedia, that 20% had ever considered doing so who had not, that 55% had never done so and had never considered doing so, and that 17% had never used Wikipedia.[14]
October 2023 YouGov survey on U.S. editors | ||
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Demographic | % of demographic respondents |
Demographic sample size |
Gender | ||
Male | 9% | 416 |
Female | 5% | 582 |
Age | ||
18–29 years | 14% | 122 |
30–44 years | 12% | 206 |
45–64 years | 3% | 394 |
65 years or older | 1% | 276 |
Race | ||
White | 6% | 611 |
Black | 5% | 119 |
Hispanic | 13% | 155 |
Other | 10% | 113 |
Party ID | ||
Democratic | 12% | 362 |
Independent | 5% | 371 |
Republican | 4% | 265 |
2020 vote | ||
Biden | 11% | 367 |
Trump | 4% | 338 |
Family income | ||
Less than $50,000 | 6% | 423 |
$50,000 to $100,000 | 8% | 277 |
$100,000 or more | 11% | 209 |
Region | ||
Northeast | 6% | 164 |
Midwestern | 6% | 217 |
Southern | 5% | 393 |
Western | 13% | 224 |
Personality
Researchers 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.[15] 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.[16][17] 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.
Motivations for contributing
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").[18]
Nomenclature
One could argue 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 (a resident of a locality). So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form the Wikipedia Community. The term "Wikimedian" is also widely used to include contributors to all the projects supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Contribution styles
Some Wikipedians welcome newcomers; some Wikipedians award those whom they feel deserve awards. Some upload images or help others do so; some work on history articles; some clean up grammar; and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all 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 Talk or administrative pages, are sometimes called exopedians, whereas those who spend significant time on such community interactions are contrasted as metapedians. A multitude of views and other contribution characteristics are represented well by common Wikipedia-related userboxes: Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia.
See also
- English Wikipedia
- Wikipedia community
- Category:WikiFauna
- Category:Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Anti-Wikipedian
- Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Essay directory
- Wikipedia:Facebook directory
- Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Notable people who have edited Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Statistics
- Wikipedia:User categories
- Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia?
References
- ^ "Wikipedia Statistics (English)". stats.wikimedia.org.
- ^ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFUSERS
- ^ This number is dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBEROFACTIVEUSERS
- ^ https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/80211
- ^ https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/80159
- ^ https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/78064. This particular query counts the number of registered editors who averaged at least one edit per day during the last month, with a minimum total of 500 edits and a minimum account age of one year.
- ^ Editors graph at stats.wikimedia.org
- ^ Pande, Mani (2012-05-10). "59 percent of logged-in Wikipedians started as anonymous editors". Diff. Retrieved 2022-09-01.
- ^ These numbers are dynamically updated with the magic word NUMBERINGROUP:groupname
- ^ Although there are two co-founders, Jimbo Wales is the only member of this group, as he is the only one of the three who still contributes to Wikipedia.
- ^ a b c Glott, Ruediger; Schmidt, Phillipp; Ghosh, Rishab (March 2010). "Wikipedia Survey—Overview of Results" (PDF). Wikipedia Study. UNU-MERIT. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011.
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- ^ Lam, S. K.; Uduwage, A.; Dong, Z.; Sen, S.; Musicant, D. R.; Terveen, L.; Riedl, J. (October 2011). "WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia's Gender Imbalance". WikiSym. ACM. pp. 1–10. doi:10.1145/2038558.2038560. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.
- ^ "YouGov Survey: Wikipedia" (PDF). YouGov. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ Amichai-Hamburger, Y.; Lamdan, Naama; Madiel, Rinat; Hayat, Tsahi (November 2008). "Personality Characteristics of Wikipedia Members". CyberPsychology & Behavior. 11 (6): 679–81. doi:10.1089/cpb.2007.0225. PMID 18954273.
- ^ Amichai-Hamburger, Y.; Wainapel, G.; Fox, S. (May 2002). "On the Internet no one knows I'm an introvert: extroversion, neuroticism and Internet interaction". CyberPsychology & Behavior. 5 (2): 125–128. doi:10.1089/109493102753770507. PMID 12025878.
- ^ Amichai-Hamburger, Y.; McKenna, K.; Tal, S. (September 2008). "E-empowerment: Empowerment by the Internet". Computers in Human Behavior. 24 (5): 1776–1789. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2008.02.002.
- ^ Nov, Oded (November 2007). "What Motivates Wikipedians?" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 50 (11): 60–64. doi:10.1145/1297797.1297798. S2CID 16517355. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 April 2012.