Wikipedians are people who write and edit the pages for Wikipedia as opposed to readers who simply read the articles.

Anyone can be a Wikipedian—including you. Just click the edit link at the top of any page, or one of the ones at the beginning of each section. Visit the editing tutorial to learn more.

You can browse or search the full user list, or request a random Wikipedian's user page.

[edit] Contribution styles

Some Wikipedians welcome newcomers; some Wikipedians award those who they feel deserve awards. Some upload images; some work on history articles; some clean up grammar; and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all of these tasks. Unfortunately, some work on creating vandalism, making more work for others. Whatever one decides to do (unless it is merely to vandalize), every Wikipedian is presumed valuable.

Wikipedians have different characteristics on many aspects, of which boldness is one: On one hand there are 1RRs (Wikipedia:1RR), who rather discuss than engage in edit wars. On the other, there are bold ones (Wikipedia:Be bold), who are rather doers than discussers.

In addition, there are Wikipedians who contribute mainly by writing and editing the contents of Wikipedia, and there are those who contribute to Wikipedia's administration or provide access to it for every single person on the planet.

Furthermore, a multitude of views and other contribution characteristics are represented well by common Wikipedia-related userboxes: Wikipedia:Userboxes/Wikipedia.