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The list of Wikipedia people includes notable editors, founders and functionaries of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
By surname[edit]
A[edit]
- Evan Amos, a New York City-based professional photographer known for his numerous stock images of video game consoles, which are frequently used in Wikipedia articles[1]
- Amin Azzam, an American psychiatrist and clinical professor at the UCSF School of Medicine known for teaching a class of medical students which consists entirely of editing Wikipedia articles[2]
B[edit]
- Yaroslav Blanter, a Russian nanoscientist who specializes in editing Russian-language pages[3]
C[edit]
- Hampton Catlin, an American computer programmer and programming language inventor who wrote several applications for iOS and other mobile platforms, including a Wikipedia browsing client which was later purchased by the Wikimedia Foundation.[4] Catlin was later hired by Wikimedia Foundation as Mobile development lead.[5]
- Faizul Latif Chowdhury, Bangladeshi economist and writer who uses his real name to edit Wikipedia, primarily the Bengali-language edition
- William Connolley, a climate modeller who edits Wikipedia using his real name[6]
- Danese Cooper, an American programmer,[7] computer scientist[8] and advocate of open source software[9] who worked with Wikimedia foundation as Chief Technical Officer.[10]
- Lee Daniel Crocker, an American programmer best known for rewriting MediaWiki, the content-management software upon which Wikipedia and many other websites run, to address scalability problems.[11]
- Anthony W. Czarnik, American biochemist, inventor, and professor.
D[edit]
- Florence Devouard, a French Wikipedian and former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation[12]
- Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first "Wikipedian-at-large"
E[edit]
- Siân Evans, a librarian, activist, and co-founder of Art+Feminism, a global campaign that challenges gender bias on Wikipedia.[13][14]
F[edit]
- Farhad Fatkullin, linguist known for work on development of Wikipedias in languages of Russia
G[edit]
- Tomasz Ganicz, former president of Wikimedia Polska (2007–2018)
- Sue Gardner, former executive director, Wikimedia Foundation (2007–2014)
- Susan Gerbic, founder and leader of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia (GSoW) project
- Mike Godwin, former general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation (2007–2010)
H[edit]
- Martin Haase, a German linguistics professor at the University of Bamberg as well as a linguist, polyglot, and podcaster who is also a Wikipedia volunteer and served as a member of Wikimedia Germany's advisory board (2005–2007).[15]
- Aaron Halfaker, a former research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation[16]
- James Heilman, a Canadian emergency department physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content.[17]
- Miran Hladnik, Slovene literary historian
J[edit]
- Andrea James, transgender activist
- Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management
- Richard J. Jensen, professor and historian
K[edit]
- Uładzimir Katkoŭski, a Belarusian blogger, web designer and website creator[18] who was a founder of Bulgarian Wikipedia
- Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, a Kazakh entrepreneur and NGO activist who was named the first Wikipedian of the Year in August 2011 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at Wikimania.[19]
- Bassel Khartabil, a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer who contributed to projects like Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Mozilla Firefox. On 15 March 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he was detained by the Syrian government at Adra Prison in Damascus.[20] Khartabil was executed by the Syrian regime shortly after his disappearance in 2015.[21]
- Justin Knapp, an American Wikipedian who in 2012 became the first person to make 1 million Wikipedia edits[22]
- Dan Koehl, pioneer and first admin on Swedish Wikipedia and prolific contributor to different Wikimedia projects.[23]
- Ihor Kostenko, a Ukrainian journalist, student activist and Wikipedian killed during the Euromaidan events.[24]
L[edit]
- Andrew Lih, an American new media researcher, consultant and writer, as well as an authority on internet censorship in the People's Republic of China[25] and a long-time Wikipedian.
M[edit]
- Katherine Maher, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2016-2021)[26]
- Michael Mandiberg, co-founder of the Art+Feminism project
- Magnus Manske, developer of MediaWiki and related software tools
- Rémi Mathis, historian and curator
- Emna Mizouni, Wikipedian of the year, 2019
- Erik Möller, former deputy director of Wikimedia Foundation (2008–2015)
N[edit]
- Felix Nartey, a Ghanaian social entrepreneur and open advocate who was named the Wikimedian of the Year in August 2017 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at Wikimania.[27]
O[edit]
- Tron Øgrim, a Norwegian journalist, author and politician. He was active in Socialist Youth Union (later Red Youth) from 1965 to 1973, and a central[28] figure in the Workers' Communist Party from 1973 to 1984. From 2005 till his death in 2007, he contributed to Wikipedia both online and offline.
P[edit]
- Tobias Preis, professor of social science
- Steven Pruitt, highest edit count on the English Wikipedia
- Simon Pulsifer, prolific Wikipedia contributor
R[edit]
- Steven Rubenstein, anthropologist
S[edit]
- Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia
- Tony Santiago, editor recognized in 2007 by the 23rd Senate of Puerto Rico for his contributions to Puerto Rico–related content[29]
- Seedfeeder, explicit illustrator
- María Sefidari, Chair of Wikimedia Foundation Board of Directors
- David Shankbone, photographer and blogger
- Revo Soekatno, linguistic researcher. Co-founder of Wikimedia Indonesia
- Jan Sokol, Czech philosopher, university professor and promoter of WMCZ project Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia
- Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, joint Wikimedian of the Year (2016)
- Aaron Swartz, programmer and political activist
T[edit]
- Sandister Tei, Wikimedian of the Year (2020), co-founder of Wikimedia Ghana User Group.
- Emily Temple-Wood, joint Wikimedian of the Year (2016)
- Lila Tretikov, former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2014–2016)
V[edit]
W[edit]
- Jess Wade, physicist
- Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014), an American Wikipedian and scholar of 18th-century British literature[30]
- Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia[31]
- Maia Weinstock
Y[edit]
- Taha Yasseri, associate professor of sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Lien, Tracey (2013-10-31). "Preserving video game history one photo at a time". Polygon. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ^ Feltman, Rachel (2014-01-28). "America's future doctors are starting their careers by saving Wikipedia". Quartz. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ^ Morris, Kevin (2013-04-25). "The greatest movie that never was". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Meet the merbists: Hampton Catlin". Merbist. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ "Wikimedia Mobile is Officially Launched". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ Dan O'Sullivan (2016), Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?, Routledge, p. 88, ISBN 9781134766246
- ^ Simon, Leslie. "Geek Girl Of The Week: Danese Cooper". leslie-simon.com. Leslie Simon. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ "PayPal names Danese Cooper head, open source". Finextra Research. Retrieved 2016-03-11.
- ^ "Noted & Quoted". Computers in Libraries. 30 (4): 36–37. 2010.
- ^ "Content News". EContent. 33 (3): 13. 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Barrett, Daniel J. (October 2008). MediaWiki. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51979-7. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ "Board of Trustees". Wikimedia Foundation. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
- ^ Hoban, Virgie. "Campus community tackles gender gap on Wikipedia during Art+Feminism Edit-a-Thon". Berkeley Library News. University of California. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ Greenberger, Alex. "MoMA Announces Fourth Annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon". ArtNews. ArtNews. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
- ^ "Ex-Wikimedia-Vorstand Haase: "Wikipedia ist in einer Sackgasse"". Die Zeit. 2011-01-13. Retrieved 2014-11-18.
- ^ Chris Wilson (15 Jan 2016), "Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble", TIME
- ^ Fleck, Fiona (1 January 2013). "Online encyclopedia provides free health info for all". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization. 91 (1): 8–9. doi:10.2471/BLT.13.030113. PMC 3537258. PMID 23397345.
- ^ "Пяць гадоў без Уладзі Каткоўскага".
- ^ Williams, Christopher (24 December 2012). "Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales restricts discussion of Tony Blair friendship". The Telegraph. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
- ^ "#FREEBASSEL: a campaign to free Bassel Khartabil from Syrian jail". Al Bawaba. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ "Horrific: Reports that Bassel Khartabil Has Been Executed in Syria". Jimmy Wales Foundation. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
- ^ "Justin Knapp Makes History On Wikipedia". NPR. 2012-04-20. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ^ "Så fungerar Wikipedia/Wikipedias historia". Lennart Guldbrandsson, sv.wikisource.org. 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
- ^ "In memoriam of Ihor Kostenko" (in Ukrainian). Wikimedia Ukraine. 23 February 2014.
- ^ Cohen, Noam. "Chinese Government Relaxes Its Total Ban on Wikipedia." The New York Times. October 16, 2006. Retrieved on February 28, 2012.
- ^ Hannah Kuchler (8 December 2017), "Wikimedia director wants more women in online encyclopedia", Financial Times
- ^ Elsharbaty, Samir (2017-08-16). "Felix Nartey named Wikimedian of the Year for 2017". Wikimedia Blog. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 2017-08-18.
- ^ Toralv Østvang, "Tron Øgrim er død" (in Norwegian)in PC World Norge, 24.05.2007, accessed June 2, 2007.
- ^ http://www.oslpr.org/files/docs/{01BAB82E-1A7A-4EC4-A081-5F5E03747D62}.doc
- ^ Cohen, Noam (2014-04-19). "Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, Wikipedia Editor, Dies in Rock Climbing Fall". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-06.
- ^ Kiss, Jemima (2010-11-09). "Jimmy Wales makes Wikia stickier with a social revamp". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-01-06.