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- noun Wiktionary and WMF jargon A person who
contributes toWikipedia , especially a regular contributor versed in the ways of thesite . - adjective Of or relating to Wikipedia.
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Andrew Lih is a Wikipedia enthusiast and insider - a so-called Wikipedian - and professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Andrew Lih is a Wikipedia enthusiast and insider - a so-called Wikipedian - and professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and
NPR Topics: News 2011
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As can be read in my short writer biography, I am an editor on Wikipedia (a "Wikipedian").
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As a ‘Wikipedian’ since 2003 (I did my 10,000th edit earlier this year), I was naturally interested in his initiative, and I had a look at the revamped article earlier this week.
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In the Wikipedian spirit of collective editing, help us to craft the entry!
Help to write the Wikipedia entry for the MIT Libraries 2008
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Wikia Search, the open source search engine project founded by Wikipedian Jimmy Wales, is expected to go into public alpha on Monday.
Open Source Wikia Search engine to debut next week | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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According to the German Wikipedian who has been working on the arrangement with Bertelsmann, there are proof pages that list, tightly, anyone who could be construed to have contributed to any of the articles that have been condensed into the volume.
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As a Wikipedian, I can confirm arguments about things much tinier than this that span for days and months and produce probably megabytes worth for text are common.
LOL: Wikipedians Argue Vehemently About Wall-A’s Resemblance to Wall-E | /Film 2008
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According to the German Wikipedian who has been working on the arrangement with Bertelsmann, there are proof pages that list, tightly, anyone who could be construed to have contributed to any of the articles that have been condensed into the volume.
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My experience as “newbie” Wikipedian was a largely, and perhaps unusually, positive one, and the lens of my own early experiences probably still flavors how I look at the site.
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WORD: Wikipedian
EXAMPLE:
' Thomsen, 74, a retired computer programmer from Fairmount, is the king of the Philadelphia Wikipedia world. With more than 120,000 edits and an eagerness to dive deep into the details of the digital encyclopedia, Thomsen spends about 10 hours each weekday behind the scenes to make the site better.
' "You get caught up in this whole concept that this thing is not as well-organized as it should be, and I'm going to do better," he said.
' Thomsen's edits, which put him in the top 200 of Wikipedians, escape the spotlight reserved for prolific article creators, but are crucial for the success of the site, observers said.
--- " Philadelphian is a king of Wikipedia editors "
Theodore Schleifer, Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer, September 2, 2013
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September 11, 2013