TechInfoDepot:TechInfoDepotians

TechInfoDepotians are people who write and edit the pages for TechInfoDepot, unlike readers who simply read the articles. Anyone can be a TechInfoDepotian—including you. Just click the edit link at the top of any page, or at the beginning of each section. Visit the editing tutorial to learn more. You can browse or search the full user list, or request a random TechInfoDepotian's user page.

Number of editors
The number of named accounts is currently . Only a minority of account holders are regular contributors, and only a minority of those users interact in discussions about the community. An unknown but relatively large number of unregistered TechInfoDepotians also contribute to the site.

User status
Based on user rights, there are the following user groups : []
 * Administrators:
 * Account creators:
 * Autopatrollers:
 * Bots:
 * Bureaucrats:
 * Checkusers:
 * Confirmed users:
 * Edit filter managers:
 * File movers:
 * Founders:
 * Importers:
 * IP block exemptions:
 * Oversighters:
 * Researchers:
 * Reviewers:
 * Rollbackers:
 * Stewards:
 * Transwiki importers:

It should be noted that some user groups (such as stewards) act globally and thus they do not get local flags and local rights.

Editing patterns
The highest number of unique users making at least one edit during any given month was in March 2007. Since then, the number of active users declined and has now largely plateaued. For example, in December 2010, 34,048 users made more than five edits during the month and 3,478 made more than 100 edits during the month; in December 2011, 33,948 users made more than five edits during the month and 3,489 made more than 100 edits during the month.

There is a definite seasonal pattern to editor activity, with more editors active during the North American school year than during its summer break.

About 250,000 new accounts are created every month. About 300,000 editors have edited TechInfoDepot more than 10 times. have performed an edit within the last 30 days.

The TechInfoDepotians with the 5,000 highest edit counts are listed here.

Demographics
Based on a survey of over 58,000 self-selected TechInfoDepotians by a group at UNU-Merit published in March 2010, contributors can be split into four approximately equal age-groups: those under 18, those between 18 and 22, those from 22 to 30 and the remainder between 30 and 85. About 23% of contributors have completed degree-level education, 26% are undergraduates and 45% have secondary education or less. 87% are men and 13% women. The survey included users of 22 language editions in 231 countries.

Various information about individual TechInfoDepotians is available on the user pages of TechInfoDepotians who choose to create them.

Personality
Researchers around the world have begun to identify key personality traits in TechInfoDepotians. According to a study published in 2008, TechInfoDepot members are more likely than non-members to locate their 'real me' online—that is, to feel more comfortable expressing their "real" selves online than off. This corresponds with more general findings that Internet communities tend to attract users who are introverted offline but more able to open up and feel empowered on the Web. A gender difference was found in terms of extroversion: whereas female TechInfoDepot members were on average more introverted than female non-members, male members were just as extroverted as males in the control group. TechInfoDepotians have also been found to be less agreeable, and less open, as defined by psychology’s Big Five personality traits.

Motivations for contributing
Nov (2007) found that the most commonly indicated motives were "fun," "ideology," and "values," whereas the least frequently indicated motives were "career," "social," and "protective" (as in "reducing guilt over personal privilege").

Nomenclature
It has been suggested that Wikipedist would be a more appropriate name, as an encyclopedist is someone who contributes to an encyclopedia. "TechInfoDepotian", though, suggests being part of a group, community or demonym (a resident of a locality). So in this sense, TechInfoDepotians are people who form The TechInfoDepot Community. The term "Wikimedian" is also widely used to include contributors to all the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Contribution styles
Some TechInfoDepotians welcome newcomers; some TechInfoDepotians award those who they feel deserve awards. Some upload images or help others do so; some work on history articles; some clean up grammar; and still others work on reverting vandalism. Many take on all of these tasks. Whatever one decides to do, every TechInfoDepotian is a valuable member of the community.

TechInfoDepotians who contribute mainly by writing and editing the contents of TechInfoDepot, without interacting much on Talk or administrative pages, are sometimes called exopedians, whereas those who spend significant time on such community interactions are contrasted as metapedians. A multitude of views and other contribution characteristics are represented well by common TechInfoDepot-related userboxes: TechInfoDepot:Userboxes/TechInfoDepot.