Wikimedianer des Jahres

Vorlage:Use mdy dates Vorlage:Short description Vorlage:Infobox award The Wikimedian of the Year is an annual award that honors Wikipedia editors to highlight major achievements within the Wikimedia movement. The award was established in August 2011 by Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales, who selects the recipients and honors them at Wikimania, an annual conference of the Wikimedia Foundation. From 2011 to 2017 the award was named Wikipedian of the Year. The award includes prize money, which as of 2020 is $5,000.

In 2011, the first Wikimedian of the Year title was given to Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, a Kazakh entrepreneur for "his work building a robust Kazakh language Wikipedia". The next year, it was awarded to Wikipedia editor identified as "Demmy" for creating a bot to translate 15,000 short English articles into Yoruba, a language spoken in Nigeria. In 2014, the award was given posthumously to Ukrainian journalist Ihor Kostenko, who actively promoted the Ukrainian Wikipedia on social networking sites, and was killed during a protest. Two years later, the first joint award was presented to Emily Temple-Wood and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight for their efforts to combat harassment on Wikipedia and increase its coverage of notable women. Other recipients include Rémi Mathis, Felix Nartey, Farhad Fatkullin, and Émna Mizouni, as well as an anonymous editor in pectore. In addition to the main award, Susanna Mkrtchyan and Satdeep Gill were the first to receive honorable mentions in 2015. Since 2015, seven honorable mentions have been conferred.

List of recipients

List of Wikimedian of the Year winners

Year	Image	Recipient	Principal project	Rationale	Vorlage:Abbr
2011		Rauan Kenzhekhanuly	Kazakh Wikipedia	Kenzhekhanuly recruited a stable community to improve the Kazakh Wikipedia, which in a year increased from 4 to over 200 active editors, and 7,000 to 130,000 articles. Wales was criticized by fellow Wikipedians because of Kenzhekhanuly's ties to the government of Kazakhstan.
2012	—	"Demmy"	Yoruba Wikipedia	Demmy created a bot to translate 15,000 short English articles into Yoruba, a language spoken in Nigeria.
2013		Rémi Mathis	French Wikipedia	Mathis received the honor for his role in the controversy surrounding the French article "Pierre-sur-Haute military radio station"
2014		Ihor Kostenko	Ukrainian Wikipedia	Kostenko, a Euromaidan activist, was an editor on the Ukrainian Wikipedia and actively promoted it on social networking sites. He was killed during a protest on February 20, 2014, and received the award posthumously.
2015	—	undisclosed	Wikimedia Commons	Wales named an anonymous editor from Venezuela in pectore who had been exiled for posting photographs of anti-government protests.
2016		Emily Temple-Wood	English Wikipedia	The first joint recipients for their efforts to combat harassment on Wikipedia and increase its coverage of notable women. Temple-Wood had created nearly 400 articles and improved hundreds more, many of which are about women scientists and LGBT and women's health. Stephenson-Goodknight had improved more than 3,000 articles, co-created a space to welcome new contributors to the site, and co-founded women's outreach projects, including the "WikiWomen's User Group", "WikiProject Women", and the "Women in Red" campaign.
		Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight	English Wikipedia
2017		Felix Nartey	English Wikipedia	Nartey adds content about his home country, Ghana, and leads several initiatives to promote the importance of editing Wikipedia. In his dedication, Wales mentioned that Nartey played a leading role in the organization of the 2nd Wiki Indaba conference 2017 in Accra, Ghana, and has been critical in building up the local communities in Africa.
2018		Farhad Fatkullin	Tatar Wikipedia	Farhad is a community-organizer among Russia's minority languages communities, beyond his native Tatar language. He is also fluent in English, which has helped establish a bridge between those communities and the wider movement after years of isolation.
2019		Emna Mizouni	Arabic Wikipedia	Emna joined with several others to found Carthagina, a non-governmental organization, in 2013. She began contributing to Wikimedia projects in 2013 with that year's Wiki Loves Monuments. She has helped to organize several major Wikimedia conferences, including the first WikiArabia conference, and co-chairing Wikimania 2018's program committee. She also joined the Affiliations Committee in 2016 and became its vice-chair in 2018.

Honorable mentions

List of Wikimedian of the Year honorable mentions

Year	Image	Recipient	Principal project	Rationale	Vorlage:Abbr
2015		Susanna Mkrtchyan	Armenian Wikipedia	For off-wiki activities including an editing campaign and youth camp.
		Satdeep Gill	Punjabi Wikipedia	Gill's efforts to encourage people at his university to edit the Punjabi Wikipedia made it the fastest-growing Indic-language Wikipedia that year.
2016		Mardetanha	Persian Wikipedia	Created the Persian-language arm of the "Wikipedia Library".
		Vassia Atanassova	Bulgarian Wikipedia	Established the "#100wikidays" contest, which challenges editors to create one Wikipedia article per day for one hundred days.
2017	—	Diego Gómez	—	Colombian student who has been prosecuted for copyright violation after having shared an academic paper online. He was later acquitted.
2018		Nahid Sultan	Bangla Wikipedia	Nahid is instrumental in the success of Wikimedia Bangladesh, a chapter that thrives under difficult circumstances, like legislation that makes it almost impossible to get funding. He also serves the global community as a steward and OTRS member and co-managed several social media accounts for the Wikimedia movement (e.g. FB Wikimedia Commons).
		Jess Wade	English Wikipedia	Started a year-long effort to put underrepresented scientists and engineers on Wikipedia.

See also

• List of volunteer awards

External links

• Vorlage:Commons category-inline

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