Wikimedian

English

Etymology

From Wikimedia +‎ -an.

Noun

Wikimedian (plural Wikimedians)

1. A member of the Wikimedia movement.

   Hyponyms: Wikimedian in Residence; Wikidatian, Wikipedian, Wiktionarian

   • 2010, Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum, page 271:

     The museums asked Wikimedians to provide the institutions with lists of thematic topics that required illustration.

   • 2013, Sotirios Paroutis, Loizos Heracleous, Duncan Angwin, Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases:

     Trusted Wikimedians could apply for one of the many levels of volunteer stewardship, receive administrator rights, and then move on to become “bureaucrats” and eventually “stewards.”

   • 2018, Merrilee Proffitt, Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge:

     To create such a role, an institution works in partnership with an affiliate or a champion to find a Wikimedian editing in a certain topic area that is relevant to the collection, and then the institution invites that Wikimedian to fill the “Visiting Scholar" position.