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**Wikipedians** are the people who write and edit articles for Wikipedia. Some people might think that **Wikipedist** would be a more appropriate name, as an encyclopedist is someone who contributes to an encyclopedia. The ending of **Wikipedian**, though, suggests being part of a group or community.  So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form  ****.

The number of Wikipedians has grown to more than 1.6 million (1 600 000 &mdash; counting registered user accounts), plus an unknown, but quite large, number of unregistered contributors. Detailed statistical information about Wikipedia is available at .

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.

You could think of Wikipedians as a global ant colony, except there's no queen, and users choose their own roles. Some Wikipedians ; some Wikipedians . Some upload images; some work on history articles; and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all of these tasks. Whatever you decide to do, every Wikipedian is valuable.

This page contains lists of Wikipedians by country, as well as various other groupings. Different categories have been created due to demand. Individual Wikipedians may add themselves to appropriate lists if they wish. It is suggested that if you put your name on one of the more specific lists, you should also include it on the alphabetical list.

## Listing by area of responsibility

Some Wikipedians have additional responsibility or authority.  Here is a list of functional groups at Wikipedia itself:

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* OTRS personnel who answer email sent to the Wikipedia contact address (list includes other languages and projects as well)
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*  - Wikipedians who can deal with management issues regarding the #wikipedia IRC channel at Freenode
*  - Involved in certain types of abuse investigations
*  - Mailing list moderation and management

In addition there are some groups that serve the entire Wikimedia foundation, including Wikipedians in languages other than English and sister projects such as commons, Wiktionary, and Wikibooks:
* m:Board of Trustees - Oversight
* m:Developers - Technical access to servers
* Freenode IRC contacts - dealing with permissions, hostname cloaks, and related IRC matters
* m:Stewards - Can revoke permissions when necessary and will grant permissions on small projects that lack an internal process for doing so

Finally there are several key individuals who have special responsibilities unique to them:
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* , deals with most inquries by phone and U.S. mail and coordinates handling of legal complaints
* , attorney who volunteers his time to serve Wikipedia

## Listing by region

See :Category:Wikipedians and :Category:Wikipedians by location for more info. 

**Please see the new project page at  to help!**

## Other listings
All lists are strictly voluntary.  We encourage you to spend your time categorising our encyclopedic content, rather than categorising yourself!

**Many of these lists are eligible for replacement by categories.**
**Please see  to help!**

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## Skills-based listings
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*.

* Cartographers
* Graphic Artists
* Photographers
* Transcribers
* Translators
* Technical Communicators
* Historians

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

## See also
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* M:Wikipedians who blog