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This page includes the top 5,000 contributors; the next 5,000 are listed here. This list is normally updated daily by a bot which updates the separate tables located elsewhere, but displayed below (see revision history for one of these tables).
- Creating An Account
- Discussion and Consensus
- Article Development and Content Protocols
- Article Creation and Notability
- Renaming and Page Deletion
- Images, Sounds, and Videos
- Lists, Tables, and Templates
You do not have to log in to read Wikipedia. You do not even have to log in to edit articles on Wikipedia. Just about anyone can edit almost any article at any given time, even without logging in. However, creating an account is free of charge and has several benefits (for example, the ability to create pages, upload media and edit without one's IP...
Guideline page: Wikipedia:Talk page guidelinesHow to pages: Help:Introduction to talk pages and Help:Using talk pagesArticles make up the bulk of Wikipedia's mainspace. Each article is on one topic (rather than a word and its definition, which usually belong in Wikimedia's dictionary project called Wiktionary). Wikipedia does not publish original research. An encyclopedia is, by its nature, a tertiary source that provides a survey of information already the subje...
Before starting a new article, please read and try to understand Wikipedia's notability requirements. In short, the topic of an article must have already been the subject of publication in reliable sources, such as books published by major publishing houses, newspapers, magazines, peer-reviewed scholarly journals and websites that meet the same req...
Wikipedia pages can be renamed by moving the page to a new title. This is done by clicking on the Move tab at the top of the page (you need to be registered and an 'autoconfirmed' user to be able to do this). Before you do so, please carefully review this checklist of things to consider before a page move. The main principles for choosing an articl...
Overview: Wikipedia:Image dos and don'tsHow to pages: Wikipedia:Media help and Wikipedia:Picture tutorialIntroductions: Help:Introduction uploading images and Help:Introduction to images (VisualEditor)See also: Help:Visual file markupGuideline page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style/ListsHow to pages: Help:List, Introduction to tables and Help:TemplatePeople also ask
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According to the WMF findings, the top three countries where Wikipedia contributors reside are the United States (20%), Germany (12%), and Russia (7%). The primary language of Wikipedia contributors is English (52%) followed by German (18%) with Russian and Spanish coming in third at 10% each.
Who contributes to Wikipedia? The English Wikipedia currently has 47,430,740 users who have registered a username. Only a minority of users contribute regularly ( 121,176 have edited in the last 30 days), and only a minority of those contributors participate in community discussions.
Technology. Mapping Wikipedia. An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why. By Michael Mandiberg. A map of the United States shows the...
Oct 2, 2018 · The Wikipedia contributor behind 2.5 million edits. Steven Pruitt, 34, of Virginia is the top editor of the English-language Wikipedia, with more than 2.5 million edits to his credit. (Marvin ...
May 5, 2020 · Steven Pruitt / Wiki user Ser Amantio di Nicolao. Steven Pruitt is an editor from Virginia, USA, with over three million edits and more than 35,000 written articles under his belt. Pruitt...
