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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Superfamily: | Hominoidea |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Subfamily: | Homininae |
| Tribe: | Hominini |
| Genus: | Homo |
| Species: | H. wikipediens |
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Homo wikipediens sysopous† | |
Wikipedians are the people who write and edit articles for Misplaced Pages. Some people might think that Wikipedist would be a more appropriate name, as an encyclopedist is someone who contributes to an encyclopedia. Some also think that "wikipediator" would be better than "wikipedians" as it is like an encyclopedia moderator (as said by avid 'wikipedian' boxbrown). The ending of Wikipedian, though, suggests being part of a group or community. So in this sense, Wikipedians are people who form The Misplaced Pages Community.
The number of Wikipedians has grown to more than 1.25 million (1,250,000 -- counting registered user accounts), plus an unknown, but quite large, number of unregistered contributors. Detailed statistical information about Misplaced Pages is available at Misplaced Pages:Statistics.
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 welcome newcomers; some Wikipedians award those whom they feel deserve awards. 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 Misplaced Pages itself:
- Arbitration committee
- OTRS personnel who answer email sent to the Misplaced Pages contact address (list includes other languages and projects as well)
- "Bureaucrats" who can change user names, and make certain user rights changes
- Misplaced Pages:List of Administrators
- Misplaced Pages:IRC - Wikipedians who can deal with management issues regarding the #wikipedia IRC channel at Freenode
- Misplaced Pages:Checkusers - Involved in certain types of abuse investigations
- Misplaced Pages:Mailing list - 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:
- Jimbo Wales, project founder
- Danny Wool, deals with most inquries by phone and U.S. mail and coordinates handling of legal complaints
- Brad Patrick, attorney who volunteers his time to serve Misplaced Pages
Listing by region
See Category:Wikipedians and Category:Wikipedians by location for more info.
Please see the new project page at Misplaced Pages:User categorisation 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 Misplaced Pages:User categorization to help!
- Dead Wikipedians
- by those attending high school
- by alma mater (current or former higher education institution)
- by culture
- by D&D alignment
- Wikipedians by Erdős number
- by field of interest
- by instant messaging service used
- with articles
- by number of edits
- by organization
- by pet
- in order of arrival
- by martial art
- by military branch
- missing Wikipedians
- by support for environmental causes
- by interest in punk music
- by degree of surrealism
- by language
- by interest in literature
- by age
- by interest in sport
- Misplaced Pages:Userboxes/Interests
Listings on Meta-Wiki
- by birthday
- by college major or degree
- by gender
- by MBTI type
- by race
- by religion
- by sub-cultural affiliation
- by thefacebook name and location
- by year of birth
Skills-based listings
We can all string a few words together (some better than others), but Misplaced Pages 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 Misplaced Pages. Consult their pages if you are interested in joining.
See Category:Wikipedian organizations
See also
- Category:Wikipedians
- Misplaced Pages:List of administrators
- Meta:Wikipedian
- Misplaced Pages:Facebook, for pictures of Wikipedians
- Misplaced Pages:Wikipediholic
- M:Wikipedians who blog
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