Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales , then-Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher , and other Wikipedians at Wikimania 2017 This list of Wikipedians includes notable editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia .
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C Faizul Latif Chowdhury Danese Cooper Hampton Lintorn-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 .[ 8] Catlin was later hired by Wikimedia Foundation as Mobile development lead.[ 9]
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, William M. Connolley[ 10]
Danese Cooper , an American programmer,[ 11] computer scientist[ 12] and advocate of open source software [ 13] who worked with Wikimedia foundation as Chief Technical Officer[ 14]
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[ 15]
Anthony Czarnik , an American biochemist, inventor, and professor
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E Siân Evans , McKensie Mack, Michael Mandiberg , and Jacqueline Mabey (left to right ) of Art+Feminism
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G Tomasz Ganicz , former president of Wikimedia Polska (2007–2018)
Sue Gardner , former executive director, Wikimedia Foundation (2007–2014)
David Gerard , author about cryptocurrencies
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 James Heilman 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)[ 17]
Aaron Halfaker , principal applied scientist at Microsoft Research , a former research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation [ 18]
Hamid Hassani , an Iranian lexicographer and corpus linguist , a senior researcher at the Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL)
James Heilman , a Canadian emergency department physician , and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content [ 19]
Miran Hladnik , a Slovenian literary historian , specializing in quantitative analysis of Slovene rural stories and in Slovene historical fiction
Netha Hussain , a medical doctor known for her efforts to tackle the spread of misinformation in Wikipedia about the origin of the coronavirus
I Maryana Iskander , chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation Maryana Iskander , chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation (2022–present)
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K Justin Knapp Uładzimir Katkoŭski (1976–2007), a Belarusian blogger, web designer and website creator[ 20] who was a founder of Belarusian 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 [ 21]
Osama Khalid , an Arab Wikipedia administrator and medical doctor who was sentenced to 32 years in prison for contributing information critical to the Saudi government.[ 22]
Bassel Khartabil (1981–2015), 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 .[ 23] Khartabil was executed by the Syrian regime shortly after his disappearance in 2015.[ 24]
Justin Knapp , an American Wikipedian who in 2012 became the first person to make 1 million Wikipedia edits[ 25]
Dan Koehl , pioneer and first admin on Swedish Wikipedia and prolific contributor to different Wikimedia projects[ 26]
Ihor Kostenko (1991–2014), a Ukrainian journalist, student activist and Wikipedian killed during the Euromaidan events[ 27]
L Andrew Lih
M Emna Mizouni Katherine Maher , executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2016–2021)[ 29]
Michael Mandiberg , co-founder of the Art+Feminism project
Magnus Manske , developer of MediaWiki and related software tools
Ira Brad Matetsky , American lawyer
Rémi Mathis , historian and curator, Wikipedian of the Year (2013), author of Wikipédia. Dans les coulisses de la plus grande encyclopédie du monde (2021)
Emna Mizouni , Wikimedian of the Year (2019)
Erik Möller , former deputy director of Wikimedia Foundation (2008–2015)
Jason Moore , editor and organizer
N Felix Nartey
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P Steven Pruitt
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S 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[ 32]
Seedfeeder , explicit illustrator
María Sefidari , chair of Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees (2018–2021)
David Shankbone , photographer and blogger
Chris Sherwin (1962–2017), scientist and researcher
Gage Skidmore , photographer
Revo Soekatno , linguistic researcher and co-founder of Wikimedia Indonesia
Jan Sokol (1936–2021), a Czech philosopher, university professor and promoter of WMCZ project Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight , joint Wikimedian of the Year (2016); Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (2021–)
Aaron Swartz (1986–2013), programmer and political activist
T Former Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretikov
V Volodymyr Vakulenko (1972–2022), Ukrainian literary figure who was murdered during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Oscar van Dillen , first chairperson of the Dutch chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation
Luis Villa , an American attorney and programmer who worked for the Wikimedia Foundation
W Adrianne Wadewitz
Y Taha Yasseri , associate professor of sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland
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