List of Wikipedia people

Jimmy Wales, Katherine Maher, and other Wikipedians at Wikimania – a gathering of Wikipedia people in Montreal, Canada in 2017.

Jimmy Wales, Vladimir Medeyko, Dmitry Erokhin, Stas Kozlovsky (2016)

The list of Wikipedia people includes notable editors, founders and functionaries of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

By surname

A

• 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
• 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

B

• Mark Bernstein, a Russian Wikipedia editor, blogger

• Yaroslav Blanter, a Russian nanoscientist who specializes in editing Russian-language pages

C

• 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. Catlin was later hired by Wikimedia Foundation as Mobile development lead.
• 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
• Danese Cooper, an American programmer, computer scientist and advocate of open source software who worked with Wikimedia foundation as Chief Technical Officer.
• 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.
• Anthony Czarnik, American biochemist, inventor, and professor.

D

• Florence Devouard, a French Wikipedian and former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
• Mike Dickison, New Zealand's first "Wikipedian-at-large"

E

• Siân Evans, a librarian, activist, and co-founder of Art+Feminism, a global campaign that challenges gender bias on Wikipedia

F

• Farhad Fatkullin, linguist known for work on development of Wikipedias in languages of Russia

G

• 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

James Heilman (right) in Wikimedia Conference 2018

• 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)
• Aaron Halfaker, a former research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation
• James Heilman, a Canadian emergency department physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content
• Miran Hladnik, Slovene literary historian

I

Maryana Iskander, chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2022

• Maryana Iskander, chief executive officer of the Wikimedia Foundation (2022–present)

J

• Andrea James, transgender activist
• Dariusz Jemielniak, professor of management
• Richard J. Jensen, professor and historian

K

Slide about Bassel Khartabil at Wikimania 2017

• Uładzimir Katkoŭski, a Belarusian blogger, web designer and website creator 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
• 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. Khartabil was executed by the Syrian regime shortly after his disappearance in 2015.
• Justin Knapp, an American Wikipedian who in 2012 became the first person to make 1 million Wikipedia edits
• Dan Koehl, pioneer and first admin on Swedish Wikipedia and prolific contributor to different Wikimedia projects
• Ihor Kostenko, a Ukrainian journalist, student activist and Wikipedian killed during the Euromaidan events

L

Jimmy Wales and Andrew Lih in 2004

• 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 and a long-time Wikipedian

M

• Katherine Maher, executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2016–2021)
• 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
• Emna Mizouni, Wikipedian of the year, 2019
• Erik Möller, former deputy director of Wikimedia Foundation (2008–2015)
• Jason Moore, editor and organizer

N

• 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
• Alaa Najjar (Arabic: علاء نجار), a physician Wikipedian and internet activist who was named the Wikimedian of the Year at Wikimania in August 2021 for his pioneering role in the development of the Arab and medical communities, as well as for his role in the development of COVID-19 topics

O

• 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 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

• Pavel Pernikaŭ, a Belarusian Wikipedia editor and human rights activist
• Tobias Preis, professor of social science
• Steven Pruitt, highest edit count on the English Wikipedia
• Simon Pulsifer, prolific Wikipedia contributor

R

• Steven Rubenstein, anthropologist

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
• Seedfeeder, explicit illustrator
• María Sefidari, chair of Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees (2018–2021)
• David Shankbone, photographer and blogger
• Revo Soekatno, linguistic researcher and co-founder of Wikimedia Indonesia
• Jan Sokol, a 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

• Sandister Tei, Wikimedian of the Year (2020) and co-founder of Wikimedia Ghana User Group
• Emily Temple-Wood, joint Wikipedian of the Year (2016)
• Lila Tretikov, former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (2014–2016)

V

• 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

• Jess Wade, physicist
• Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014), an American Wikipedian and scholar of 18th-century British literature
• Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia
• Maia Weinstock, science journalist and gender equality activist
• Molly White, Wikipedia editor, cryptocurrency skeptic, and author of the site Web3 Is Going Just Great

Y

• Taha Yasseri, associate professor of sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland

See also

• Wikipedia community