Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales (center, in a plaid shirt), former Wikimedia Foundation executive director Katherine Maher (center, in a black shirt), and other Wikipedians at the 2017 Wikimania in Montreal

This list includes notable editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia who create and maintain the site, known as Wikipedians, as well as other notable people associated with the project and the larger Wikipedia community.

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Faizul Latif Chowdhury in 2017
Danese Cooper in 2010

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Siân Evans, McKensie Mack, Michael Mandiberg, and Jacqueline Mabey (left to right) of Art+Feminism

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James Heilman in 2015

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Maryana Iskander, former chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation

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  • Andrea James, American transgender activist, who was described by the HuffPost as one of "the most prolific contributors in Wikipedia’s history"[38]
  • Dariusz Jemielniak, Polish professor of management. Within the Wikimedia movement, Jemielniak is involved in the Polish Wikipedia, where he has served in various roles, including as an administrator, bureaucrat and check-user[39]
  • Richard J. Jensen, American professor and historian, longtime Wikipedia editor[40]
  • Sverker Johansson, Swedish linguist, physicist, textbook author, and developer of Lsjbot. In 2011, Johannson started making bots on Wikipedia, which have since made millions of edits[41][42]

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Justin Knapp in 2012

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Andrew Lih in 2014

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Emna Mizouni in 2015

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Felix Nartey in 2017
Alaa Najjar in 2022

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Steven Pruitt in 2022

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Aaron Swartz

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Former Wikimedia Foundation executive director Lila Tretikov

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Adrianne Wadewitz in 2012
  • Jess Wade, British physicist who has written over 1,700 articles about women in STEM[91][92]
  • Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014), American scholar of 18th-century British literature. She was known for making over 49,000 edits to Wikipedia and creating multiple featured articles.[93]
  • Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia[94]
  • Maia Weinstock, American science journalist and gender equality activist. She has been an editor of Wikipedia for a number of years[95]
  • Andrew West (linguist) (1960 – 2025), British sinologist, linguist, and script developer. He made tens of thousands of edits to Wikipedia, Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons in his areas of expertise.[96]
  • Winifred O. Whelan, religious sister, academic, writer, and member of Wikiproject Women in Religion[97]
  • Molly White, American cryptocurrency skeptic and author of website Web3 Is Going Just Great. She is known for being a prolific Wikipedia editor under the username GorillaWarfare, and she created a request for comment that ultimately resulted in the Wikimedia Foundation no longer accepting donations of cryptocurrency.[98][99][100]
  • David Woodard, American composer and former Wikipedia editor, known for using over 200 sock puppet accounts to create hundreds of articles about himself in different languages before being discovered[101]

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