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The number of active editors (registered accounts making 5+ edits in a given month) has been stable at the English Wikipedia since about 2013. Even though the overall volume is holding steady, we miss many of the individuals who used to contribute here.

This is a list of Wikipedians who no longer edit the English Wikipedia and are considered missing by the community. Wikipedians who have been confirmed to have died should instead be added to Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians. Editors who stopped editing before 2010 are listed at Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians/2000–2009.

Purpose of this list

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The purpose of this list is to provide a reminder of those who have left. Please do not add users with fewer than ~1,000 edits. Do not add people unless you are certain they have left. Do not add anonymous users identified by their IP address or (for UseModWiki-era accounts) domain names; they may have a roaming IP address or possibly created an account to contribute. Do not add banned users, or yourself. Leave a message on the person's talk page to let them know that you have added them to this list; they can remove themselves if they ever return. Retired Wikipedians who do not wish to be listed may also remove themselves.

  • People who leave a goodbye message or a {{retired}} template on their user page or elsewhere, and then actually refrain from editing for at least a year are likely to have left permanently and may be added to the list.
  • Wait at least a year before listing someone who has simply stopped editing, unless you have some other reason for being certain that they have left.
  • Generally, editors who have gradually adopted a pattern of occasional editing interspersed with long breaks should not be listed merely because they are on one of their breaks.
  • Editors who return are no longer "missing" and therefore should be removed from the list.
  • Editors who have received a courtesy vanishing intentionally want to be missing and should not be listed.
  • If you add your own username to the list, even as one of your final edits, your addition might be reverted since it is impossible for a "missing" Wikipedian to make an edit.

The entries with the mop icon   beside their names are Wikipedia administrators, or have been at one time (many are procedurally desysopped due to inactivity; see also Wikipedia:List of administrators/Inactive). All dates featured on this page correspond with UTC times.

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  • *drew (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution on May 1, 2011. Editing slowed down heavily after October 2007, only making four edits since then which were to archive their talk page, with their last edit adding a busy status on their userpage. Has made no edits since then.
  •   7 (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Former administrator who was particularly active at AIV and UAA. Last edit was on August 25, 2015.
  • 16@r (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit 5-5-2021, last global edit on French Wikipedia 5-8-2021. Prolific contributor with over 31,000 edits and 4,788 created pages. Editing slowed down significantly after 2008, making only sporadic edits afterwards, until a stop in late 2013. Made a brief return in 2021, making 16 edits until their final edit. First edit was made on January 26, 2006.
  •   17Drew (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Former administrator, previously User:ShadowHalo. Made almost 21,000 edits; the last two, in 2008, pointed to his new account user:PiracyFundsTerrorism, which made sporadic edits in July–August 2009 and March–May 2011. Was desysopped for inactivity in 2011.
  • 21655 (talk · contribs · count) – Retired on August 20, 2011. A highly active vandal-fighter with over 10,000 edits in 2008, but made only a few hundred over the following three years.

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  • O^O (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 11, 2007. He/she wrote on August 26, 2006 that he/she had been a frequent contributor since August 2002, had held several personas over the years, and had used "admin accounts, hundreds of 'anonymous' IP addresses, and more user accounts than I could ever tally". Specialized in zen-like answers.
  • OccultZone (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 27, 2022.
  • Oddbodz (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit May 31, 2019. Was mostly active 2011-2013, with edits sharply dropping afterwards. Edits increased in 2016, but dropped again and continued to do so until their final edit in 2019.
  • Oden (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit was January 2007, placing a retirement tag on his userpage. Left due to his involvement in the heated WP:NFCC debates, resulting AN complaints about wikistalking, incivility on the part of others, etc.
  • Ojo del tigre (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 17, 2021, with the last global edit being on Spanish Wikipedia on April 8, 2021. Returned to add {{Retired}} to their user page on December 9, 2022.
  • Old Moonraker (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit August 21, 2012.
  • Oldtaxguy (talk · contribs · count) – Last contribution October 24, 2020. Activity dropped after 2012, with edits slowly declining until 2016, where edits stopped for four years until final edit in 2020. Formerly active in articles related to taxes.
  •   Oldwindybear (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Former administrator. Amid allegations of sockpuppetry, Oldwindybear asked for his userpage to be deleted and blanked his talkpage. Last edit July 25, 2007.
  • Olessi (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 27, 2013.
  • Ollie (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 26, 2009.
  • OmegaWikipedia (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit November 7, 2005.
  • Omicronpersei8 (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit December 9, 2006, made a few on the 9th, placing a "Former Wikipedians" template on his user page with "Goodbye" as the edit summary. A dedicated vandalfighter with over 50,000 edits.
  • Omniplex (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 10, 2006, blanked user page; was also very active on Meta during March–July 2006.
  • On Wheezier Plot (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 27, 2012.
  • OneGuy (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor until March 2013, sporadic edits since. Last mainspace edit November 7, 2020, has made some user and user talk edits since, the latest on September 11, 2023.
  • OnionRing (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 9, 2016.
  •   Optim (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Former administrator and bureaucrat. Left notice on userpage. Last edit March 6, 2004.
  • OrangesRyellow (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit 3-2-2015, last global edit on Meta-Wiki 3-8-2015.
  • Orca1 9904 (talk · contribs · count) – Contributor with 5,039 edits who was active in military-related articles. Last edit made on October 13, 2021. First edit made on March 30, 2006.
  • Orfen (talk · contribs · count) – Sporadically edited after August 28, 2009, with several edits in November 2010, and a final edit nearly a year later, on November 2, 2011. Made one edit on Meta-Wiki in January 2012; has not edited any Wikimedia projects since.
  •   Orioane (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Last edit February 29, 2012. Procedurally de-sysopped due to inactivity on March 1, 2013.
  • Orphan Wiki (talk · contribs · count) - Last edit November 29, 2022. Prolific editor with over 35,000 edits, and almost 15 years on Wikipedia.
  • OsamaK (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 18, 2020.
  • Osiris (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 20, 2017. Continued editing on Simple English Wikipedia until December 2018, followed by one edit on English Wikivoyage in August 2023; has not edited any Wikimedia projects since.
  • Ottawa4ever (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit March 3, 2019.
  • OttawaAC (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 5, 2019.
  • Ottre (talk · contribs · count) – Last edit July 2, 2016.
  •   Oxymoron83 (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Former administrator. Last contribution December 9, 2010. Over 70,000 edits since May 17, 2007.

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  • QazPlm (talk · contribs · count) – Prolific editor and creator of articles on cricket and Australian geography from late 2005 to mid 2008.
  • Qirex (talk · contribs · count) – She effectively quit on January 28, 2006, coming back only once on May 7 that year to blank her user page.
  • QPT (talk · contribs · count) – This user (originally called Origamite) had about 4000 edits between March 2013 and January 30, 2016, but has no edits since (as of November 2017). S/he left a message on his/her user page.
  •   Qwyrxian (talk · contribs · count · former admin: blocks · protects · deletes · rights · meta · groups) – Administrator (from July 2011) with over 57,000 edits beginning in May 2006. Has not edited since announcing an “extended break” in January 2014, which some colleagues attributed to off-wiki harassment.

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