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{{short description|Annual award established by Jimmy Wales}}
{{Infobox
| name = Wikimedian of the Year
| former name = Wikipedian of the Year
| image = WikiArabia '19 517 (cropped).jpg
| alt = Photo of Alaa Najjar in a striped shirt
| image_upright = 1
| caption = 2021 recipient [[Alaa Najjar]]
| location = Traditionally presented at [[Wikimania]]
| presenter = [[Jimmy Wales]]
| awarded_for = Major achievements within the [[Wikimedia movement]]
| reward =
| year = {{start date and age|2011|08}}
}}
The '''Wikimedian of the Year''' is an annual award that honors [[Wikipedia community|Wikipedia editors]] and other contributors to [[Wikimedia]] projects to highlight major achievements within the [[Wikimedia movement]], established in August 2011 by [[Wikipedia]]'s co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]]. Wales selects the recipients and honors them at [[Wikimania]], an annual conference of the [[Wikimedia Foundation]]—except in 2020, when the recipient was announced at an [[online meeting]] as a consequence of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name=":4" /> From 2011 to 2017, the award was named '''Wikipedian of the Year'''.<ref name="dd" />

In 2011, the first title was given to [[Rauan Kenzhekhanuly]] for his work on the [[Kazakh Wikipedia]]. The following year, it was awarded to an editor identified as "Demmy" for creating a bot to translate 15,000 short English articles into [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]], a language [[Languages of Nigeria|spoken in Nigeria]]. In 2013, [[Rémi Mathis]] of [[Wikimédia France]] and the [[French Wikipedia]] was named for his role in an article controversy. In 2014, the award was [[Posthumous award|given posthumously]] to Ukrainian journalist [[Ihor Kostenko]], who actively promoted the [[Ukrainian Wikipedia]] on social networking sites and was killed during a protest. Wales named an undisclosed recipient in 2015, and hopes someday to tell their story. In 2016 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 women. Other recipients include [[Felix Nartey]], [[Farhad Fatkullin]], and [[Emna Mizouni]]
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In addition to the main award, [[Susanna Mkrtchyan]] and Satdeep Gill were the first to receive honorable mentions in 2015. Since then, seven honorable mentions have been conferred.

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