User

In the wiki world, a user is is the given to anyone who edits, develops, or merely only reads a wiki site.

In the case of Wikipedia, there are many s who only read the wiki encyclopedia, but do not participate in creating or amending content. In closed wiki sites, readers may be required to be editors. In a restricted editing wiki site, such as Scholarpedia, it is assumed that there will be many more readers than editors, but all are considered users.

In the case of all MediaWiki-powered wiki sites, 'users' are classed as a specific , typically being the entry-level, but fundamental core group of who create the content on the wiki.

The term 'user' is a technical term for people who built the internet or other software, but some folks believe it is not a good nor friendly term for outfacing public. Participant, or almost any other term for a person is preferred.

User: is also a  on -powered wiki sites, and also on some other wiki engines. Its associated talk page namespace is User talk:.

User – in other languages

 * de: Benutzer
 * es: Usuario
 * fr: Utilisateur
 * hu: Szerkesztő
 * it: Utente
 * pl: Użytkownik
 * ru: Участник