Wikimedian

plural Wikimedians

1. A member of the Wikimedia movement; especially, a volunteer contributor to it, as contrasted with a Wikimedia Foundation employee.

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

   2010, Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum, page 271

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   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.”

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

   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.

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