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  1. Greg Robson ( talk) 21:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Project founder
  2. Urthogie ( talk) 03:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC) reply
  3. Circeus ( talk) 03:08, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) Mostly as a constant and unrelented categorist. I'll be glad to help assisting regularizing categorization.
  4. smoddy ( talk) 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC) I plan to tackle cricket's abomination, but would be happy to go further afield. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC)
  5. CQ ( talk) 30 June 2005 20:58 (UTC) | top down, ad hoc bottom up any way that works!
  6. R adiant _>|< July 7, 2005 13:46 (UTC)
  7. Who ?¿? 08:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Overall categorization schemas. I started with all image, X-Men and comics categories. Now for the rest of the tangled web. :) reply
  8. Maurreen (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC) reply
  9. Splash ( talk) 21:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC) I meant to sign here ages ago. reply
  10. Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/ C 08:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC) - Did you know Wikipedia has over 68,000 categories. I hope to pare down some of the redundant and/or underpopulated catgories. reply
  11. Noakesey 12:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Beginner who's obsessed with organising other people's information! reply
  12. Siafu ( talk) 04:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  13. Carcharoth ( talk) 22:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Currently working on Category:Disasters which was a disaster but is looking better now. Still learning, but would appreciate any comments. reply
  14. Hiding ( talk) 19:21, 10 September 2005 (UTC) Probably in helping to standardise, although any other areas I could be useful, let me know. (somewhat inactive) reply
  15. Mushroom ( talk) 17:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC) reply
  16. Ze miguel ( talk) 10:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC) reply
  17. Paul ( talk) 02:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Classifying information is my drug. reply
  18. Quaque ( talk) 00:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC) There are a large amount of uncategorized articles out there. I hope to help reduce these. reply
  19. Jake ( talk) 04:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC) I started with Category:Computing, and just kept following links... working on Category:American people and Category:Ancient Romans now... try to get as much as possible across the board subsorted reply
  20. Suryoyo ( talk) 00:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC) - Im more interested on history of middleeast. reply
  21. __earth ( talk) 16:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) - Taking up everything that falls under Category:Southeast Asia. Wish me luck because it's huge! reply
  22. Peter McGinley ( talk) 12:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC) reply
  23. Crystallina ( talk) 06:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC) - Mainly been doing music-related articles, although I'd be glad to branch out. reply
  24. Can't sleep, clown will eat me ( talk) 11:28, 29 January 2006 (UTC) reply
  25. Waggers ( talk) 16:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC) - I've been adding categories to uncategorized articles for a little while; I'll continue to do this, but I'm also interested in cleanup reply
  26. bmills ( talk) 16:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC) — Fixing Category:Computer science and related categories (crossover with WP:COMPSCI). (indefinite leave) reply
  27. Kbdank71 ( talk) 18:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Mainly working cleanup on WP:CFD. reply
  28. Waitak ( talk) 14:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC) Category:Underutilized crops and related. reply
  29. Sam ( talk) 07:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC). Mainly work on categorization and classification policy. reply
  30. Adding cats to articles without cats Wh e re (talk) 01:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC) reply
  31. -- WilliamThweatt ( talk) 21:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Been working on organizing the Languages categories. Starting to sort, tag and organize AustroAsiatic Languages. reply
  32. -- Paleorthid ( talk) 15:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Soil science categories. Developing schema is posted on soil science category talk page. reply
  33. Viriditas | ( talk) 06:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC) reply
  34. ProveIt (talk) 21:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC) I've been working on the Uncategorized Categories list. reply
  35. -- Vir ( talk) 02:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC) I'm interested in general categorization schemes. reply
  36. Museumfreak ( talk) 15:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Thought I'd add myself because I add cats to articles without cats and am doing cleanup and reworking of Category:Public Health reply
  37. JennyRad ( talk) 15:52, 1 June 2006. Have been categorising cheeses and books and am looking at other categories to assist on.
  38. Epolk ( talk) 17:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC) - I will categorize anything but I regularly patrol the Category:Federal government of the United States reply
  39. Recury ( talk) 17:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Mostly Category:Auto racing right now, but will probably work on some of the other automobile-related and sports-related categories later where needed. reply
  40. Brz7 | ( talk) 20:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply
  41. Zorbl e k (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC) I do miscellaneous categorizing, but I'm especially interested in making sure that categories are linked logically. reply
  42. SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 19:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC) reply
  43. utcursch | ( talk)
  44. DGG ( talk) I'm trying to get various library and publishing topics into places that make sense.
  45. Jdclevenger ( talk) 22:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC) General work, pretty random really. A strong interest in food articles. reply
  46. Daniel. ( talk) 08:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC) General work, with strong interest in Anime, Manga and Comics. reply
  47. Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 07:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - I'll be going through Category:Categories requiring diffusion and diffusing the articles in those categories. Current projects include Category:European Union and Category:Lists of office-holders. reply
  48. Fishal ( talk) 15:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC): I guess I like categorizing things. reply
  49. TonyTheTiger ( talk) I have just overhauled Category:Families. TonyTheTiger 17:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC) reply
  50. SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib 03:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC) — Working heavily on fixing up the categorization of pool/billiards/snooker articles. reply
  51. EdGl ( talk) 01:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC) I categorize articles without a category. reply
  52. Delta TangoTalk 13:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Always liked categorization, and will always continue categorizing. reply
  53. MChew ( talk) 15:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Working on biographical categorization at present, but will always add as many categories as I feel suitable to non or under categorized articles reply
  54. Obina ( talk) 10:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I am currently adding categories to articles - Very interesting as it often leads me to improving or sometimes proposing deletion. reply
  55. lquilter ( talk) 23:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC) - Librarian; interested in categorization generally. Mostly working within people, legal topic, awards, fiction, and fictional works categories. ... Cleaning up sciences; also " Category:Establishments by year". reply
  56. Sue H. Ping ( talk) 14:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in helping clean out the backlog of articles that don't have categories reply
  57. Melanochromis ( talk) 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in cleaning up and maintaining fish and fishkeeping categories. Will also help with other subjects as needed. reply
  58. Lesnail ( talk) 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Enjoys categorizing things. reply
  59. El on ka 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - Identification of uncategorized articles, and tagging them accordingly reply
  60. Stardust8212 ( talk) 02:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Working the uncategorized task force, specifically uncategorized people reply
  61. Richiar ( talk) - categories and portals and their relationship with articles have been very confusing for me, so if I learn about them, I can help. Areas-design and organization of categories and their relationships to each other, articles and portals
  62. Flubeca ( talk) 16:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC) - Since I was already helping with this. I thought "Why not add my name to the list?" (user retired) reply
  63. SilkTork ( talk) 13:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - I love it. reply
  64. WillyFourEyes ( talk) 17:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC) I like categorization. I'm going to try and add categories to articles relating to video games and cartoons, my areas of "expertise". reply
  65. Lenoxus ( talk) 16:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC) reply
  66. Bencherlite 02:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC) correct categorization of musicians, dealing with overcategorization of people reply
  67. Vinch ( talk) 6:31, 4 April 2007 (IST)
  68. Telly addict 10:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Generally helping categorise articles via Category:Uncategorized pages. reply
  69. Kranar drogin 01:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Cleaning up Illinois-related categories for WikiProject Illinois. reply
  70. Suncloud 08:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Mainly loiter in Special:Uncategorizedpages where I try and categorise pages there, alongside dealing with (or highlighting) the other issues these, often new, pages have. reply
  71. Bu b0y2007 06:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC) (always willing to help and participate) reply
  72. Wizardman 02:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)--I've done some work with cats before, I'm always available if needed. reply
  73. MFulvio I'm a librarian & a taxonomy manager-- so I'm both familiar with categorization and rather easily excited by it. I'd be delighted to help in this project. Mfulvio 18:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC) reply
  74. The Sunshine Man 14:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC) I regularly categorise articles via Category:Category needed. reply
  75. Werldwayd 06:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC) (I am very organized and am always willing to help in Wikipedia categories) reply
  76. Psych less 23:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC) – I want to help with uncategorized pages, and other categorization tasks reply
  77. Gary King 06:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC) I'm cleaning up uncategorized pages. reply
  78. Yamaka122 16:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC) reply
  79. Lord Sesshomaru 00:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC) Wish I had known about this WikiProject sooner. Glad to help whenever possible. reply
  80. Dbiel ( Talk) 09:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC) would like to take a stab at the school related categories. reply
  81. CaveatLector Talk 15:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Categories help organize Wikipedia in a way that aids navigation and therefore research. On that note, I'd like to work on making superfluous lists into more defined and useful categories. reply
  82. AchedDamiman All A-Z.
  83. Shruti14 22:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC) good WP reply
  84. Acs4b T C U 03:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC) - As I do not have a general area to contribute to, it will just be a mixture of practically everything. Categories are essential but play a crucial role on Wikipedia. Plus, I did not realise until just recently that categorisation can be interesting and fun but not stressful at times. reply
  85. elmindreda 03:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC) - I categorise anything, but mostly people (using Special:Uncategorizedpages). reply
  86. Tirkfl talk 14:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC) - From time to time, when I feel like organising something, I do some categorising — mainly articles on people and science. reply
  87. Cgingold 00:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC) I just discovered that this project exists, so I guess I may as well make it "official", seeing as I'm already doing a good deal of work in this area. reply
  88. MrBoo ( talk, contribs) 14:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC) reply
  89. Kathleen.wright5 05:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC) reply
  90. Severa ( !!!) 13:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC) I'm most interested in diffusing overpopulated categories and attempting to create navigable categorization schemes. reply
  91. Shinobigai( !!!) 15:18EST, 28 October 2007 ~~~~ IM interested in anime, martial arts, linguistics, Scifi, and aviation
  92. wooerfara3661 10:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC) reply
  93. Jon Ace 20:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Random categorizer reply
  94. Gueneverey ( talk) 22:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC) I just found out this WikiProject exists, but I've been categorizing folk music related articles for some time now. reply
  95. Jw21/Penalty Killah VANucks|12-9-2 04:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC) You won't believe how messed up it is, especially when you edit articles on consumer electronics... reply
  96. Doczilla ( talk) 03:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC) A lot of CfDs. reply
  97. Grk1011 ( talk) 23:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC) I like to categorize music related articles reply
  98. -- JustJimDandy ( talk) 19:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC) reply
  99. FeanorStar7 ( talk) 00:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC) --primarily adding birth and death categories to bios; trying to be systematic; right now in the 1610s; also working on the uncategorized pages category reply
  100. i123Pie bio contribs 18:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC) reply
  101. Rotovia ( talk) 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC) Linking Australian articles, particually Australian poltical articles reply
  102. Megata Sanshiro ( talk) 15:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC) sorting video game and video game company articles. reply
  103. Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC) categorizing (or deleting) everything in Special:UncategorizedCategories except for Category:Contents. reply
  104. BillyMassie ( talk) Billy Massie ( talk) 05:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC) reply
  105. Mdebets ( talk) 11:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC) reply
  106. -- Wulf Isebrand ( talk) 00:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC) I'm currently categorizing articles at Category:German-Americans and some other "Fooian-American" categories. Categories are an important aspect of Wikipedia and the best way to organize it. reply
  107. Arsenikk (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC) -- primarily related to the Nordic Countries, transport and business. reply
  108. THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 17:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC) I have been working on categories off and on for some time. I try to find ungrouped subcategories that lack a overarching category, and place articles in more appropriate categories. I also try to reorganize categories to eliminate "endless do loops" in category tree structures, which include overcategorizing individual articles with nested categories. I mostly work on categories related to articles and topics I have knowledge in. However, I'm happy to assist in any area.  :) reply
  109. Shooke ( talk) 19:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC) would be helpful because I've been working categorizing in other wikimedia projects, :D reply
  110. Dakinijones I've mostly been working over in spirituality/religion
  111. Mycroft7 ( talk) 17:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC) I've mostly been sorting categories relating to New York City and Long Island. reply
  112. Skittleys ( talk) 17:45, 7 July 2008 (UTC) I enjoy diffusing large categories and finding homes for uncategorized articles :) though I pretty much do anything I can. reply
  113. Anik Ghosh ( talk) 17:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
  114. Victor Lopes ( talk) 22:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC) I work for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized. I usually work populating categories and improving the categorization of articles about most topics. reply
  115. TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 15:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Created Category:Number-one albums in the United Kingdom and currently populating it. reply
  116. -- --musicalmeg20 ( talk) 05:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Currently working on uncategorized pages. reply
  117. EmanWilm ( talk) 18:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC) Currently deleting red-link categories in reverse order (Z-A) and working for Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized reply
  118. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 23:01, 9 December 2008 (UTC) - active at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized. reply
  119. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 05:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC) - A great project. I have been removing templates and user pages form article space categories, creating country specific sub-categories where approp, sorting large categories into sub-categories, and removing inapprop articles from high level categories. I spend a lot of time messing about with articles under Category:Environment. reply
  120. Animist ( talk) 11:19, 27 December 2008 (UTC), I have interest in relevant categorization of articles and categories themselves, in completeness and redundancy checks of needed list of wiki categories. I'm an active member of the Russian language Wikipedia categorization project, but it often leads me to check the correspondence between categorization trees in en-wiki and ru-wiki with further mutual edits. Hope that soon with a toolserver account it will be simpler for me to automate this comparison. reply
  121. Scarykitty ( talk) 02:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC), category geek. Focus on uncategorized articles and LGBT articles. reply
  122. Saeed.Veradi ( talk) 20:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC) reply
  123. Skullers ( talk) 14:47, 3 April 2009 (UTC) reply
  124. MuffledThud ( talk) 16:50, 29 April 2009 (UTC) joining the long march toward Total Categorization reply
  125. Unionhawk Talk E-mail 00:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC) - Active elsewhere in the project as well. reply
  126. Declan Clam ( talk) 23:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC) currently beefing up underpopulated categories reply
  127. Pknkly Struggling with documenting Chicago Project's categorization scheme Pknkly ( talk) 22:05, 30 September 2009 (UTC) reply
  128. Familiae Watts I like to keep my house in order; categorisation keeps Wikipedia manageable.
  129. Gosox( 55)( 55) 03:10, 13 January 2010 (UTC), specializing in American History, Literature, and Politics. reply
  130. mheart ( talk) 02:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC) WikiProject Category sorting revivalist-turned-dedicated WikiProject Categories member. Music category and diffusion specialization. reply
  131. AusTerrapin ( talk) 16:45, 4 July 2010 (UTC) primary focus on Orders, Decorations and Medals but will also delve into awards, history (particularly military history), and biographical related information. I like to ensure a category schema are coherent webs of logically structured categories that enhance navigation around the subject area in accordance with information management and human memory retrieval principles. reply
  132. McLerristarr /  Mclay1 14:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC) – I'm currently categorisation categories, especially redirect categories and, since yesterday, public domain-related categories. reply
  133. thisisace ( talk) 21:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC) reply
  134. TiMike ( talk) 03:13, 8 January 2011 (UTC) - I'd like to help, I primarily focus on the articles that have no categories. reply
  135. Shire Reeve ( talk) 08:21, 17 February 2011 (UTC) - Focusing for now on uncategorised stubs. reply
  136. Miraculousrandomness ( talk) 19:09, 5 March 2011 (UTC) reply
  137. Mr Sheep Measham ( talk) 06:16, 27 April 2011 (UTC) I'd like to help, I normally focus on uncategorised articles. reply
  138. Dobry 18:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC) ( talk) I'm intersted in categories about journalism and media
  139. Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 23:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC) reply
  140. -- Assassin'S Creed (talk) 02:19, 23 July 2011 (UTC) reply
  141. JoshCool776 ( talk) 19:26 14 October 2011 (UTC) - Adding categories on other articles.
  142. STSC ( talk) 22:19, 9 November 2011 (UTC) - General re-organizing mis-placed categories. reply
  143. Byrappa
  144. Andrew (User:90) (talk) - Especially interested in U.S. counties
  145. extra999 ( talk) 16:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply
  146. Andrewaskew ( talk) 03:29, 17 September 2012 (UTC) - Social sciences, particularly sociology, media studies, studies in religion, reply
  147. Thegreatgrabber (talk) contribs 14:07, 29 October 2012 (UTC) - General maintenance, reply
  148. P4z ( talk) 04:50, 3 November 2012 (UTC) - I would like to help categorizing Wikipedia pages. reply
  149. Djr13 ( talk) 00:10, 4 November 2012 (UTC) - starting out with maintenance and improvement of category:IWW ("categorize now, categorize right!") reply
  150. Radio15dude ( talk) 00:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC) - Starting out with maintaining the Cold War Category and its subcategories. reply
  151. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 18:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC) - I have been working for about a year on categories, particularly Category:San Francisco Bay Area (organizing and creating new categories), and have populated Category:Individual physical objects with subcats that were appropriate. Lots of other cat work as well. I am thus a de facto member (:I'll leave it to others to say if i am a GOOD member:) reply
  152. Fortdj33 ( talk) 12:41, 24 April 2013 (UTC) - I have been concentrating on {{ WikiProject Film}} articles lately, making sure that the articles are categorized as specifically as possible, removing redundant categories, and updating all stub-class articles with the appropriate stub tags. reply
  153. Joeldbenson ( talk) 17:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC) - Seem's I stumbled into helping categorize computer networking articles reply
  154. Sm8900 ( talk) 13:42, 5 June 2013 (UTC) broad categorization and overall categorization system. reply
  155. Allforrous ( talk) 22:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC) reply
  156. Diptanshu Talk 20:18, 21 January 2014 (UTC) I work primarily in the domains of WP:MED and related WikiProjects. Normally I look up the individual articles in a given category, make edits to the articles as required, add main article for the given category, assign the category to respective WikiProject(s), assign uncategorised articles to suitable categories and reassign categories as required. reply
  157. Anastasia ( talk) 19:47, 21 February 2014 (UTC) As a new page patroller, I try to categorize as many pages as possible :) reply
  158. MrLinkinPark333 MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 00:09, 28 March 2014 (UTC) - I am beginning working through the uncategorized pages. reply
  159. Categlory ( talk) 17:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  160. Mr. Yondris Ferguson ( Leave a Comment) 09:07, 24 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  161. Auresque ( talk) 05:08, 4 October 2014 (UTC) reply
  162. I dream of horses ( T) @ 20:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC) A random page patroller who often changes the categorization of the pages she lands on. reply
  163. yoyo ( talk) 03:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC) I'm interested in making the categories as simply useful to readers as possible. More particularly, my current focus is on getting articles that explain surgical terminology well categorised. reply
  164. —⁠ 烏⁠Γ ( kaw), 08:12, 23 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  165. Gabeiglesia ( talk) 09 December 2015 (UTC)
  166. Robevans123 ( talk) 20:29, 4 January 2016 (UTC) - specialities - railways, local history, Wales, backlog clearing reply
  167. Marcocapelle ( talk) 12:36, 17 January 2016 (UTC) - main interests are history and religion but in fact I join category discussions about almost anything. My most frequent edit summary in articles is "removed (grand)parent category of ...", which is in line with Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization. reply
  168. Fadesga ( talk) 11:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC) - translation, linguistics, architecture, Uruguay. reply
  169. Nocowardsoulismine ( talk) 15:58, 6 March 2016 (UTC) - I mainly work on India-related categories. reply
  170. JonathanDP81 ( talk | contribs) 16:21, 21 April 2016 (UTC) reply
  171. User:Iazyges Roman or Byzantine military stuff.
  172. Ayub407 talk 07:52, 16 August 2016 (UTC) reply
  173. Fixuture ( talk) 13:13, 2 January 2017 (UTC) I'm creating many new categories with most of them relating to emerging technologies, science fiction and the Information Age and also categorize undercategorized pages. I couldn't work without the HotCat gadget. I think the category system is an integral part of Wikipedia that allows all kinds of research/journalistic endeavors and visualizations. reply
  174. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 04:21, 25 January 2017 (UTC) reply
  175. Hazarasp ( talk) 08:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC) reply
  176. Soulbust ( talk) 09:10, 18 July 2017 (UTC) reply
  177. Wilhelmina Will - I gather I had not joined this project prior to today. Well, now I have! A lot of good editing can happen in ten years. ( talk) 20:08, 22 August 2017 (UTC) reply
  178. The Gnome ( talk) 17:57, 4 January 2018 (UTC) Everything that is relevant to categorization, but particularly the fields of biography; economics; and military history. reply
  179.  Buaidh  18:01, 7 February 2018 (UTC) reply
  180. Masterfireheart ( talk) 16:40, 12 February 2018 (UTC) Interested in music/software related articles, but I'm willing to help around anywhere. reply
  181. DavidRideout ( talk) 22:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC) I am interested in the distinction between set and topic categories. reply
  182. — AfroThundr ( u · t · c) 15:14, 8 September 2018 (UTC) Might as well, as much as I've played with categories. reply
  183. ElanHR ( talk) 21:15, 30 October 2018 (UTC) Broken ontologies break my heart. :( Adds topic/set templates and fixes inconsistent super/subcat semantics when applicable. reply
  184. Sm8900 glad to be here. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 17:22, 20 November 2018 (UTC) reply
  185. Wei4Green · 唯绿远大 14:36, 22 October 2019 (UTC): I'm currently focusing on userbox categorization. reply
  186. Ahlam.othman ( talk) 02:26, 20 December 2019 (UTC) reply
  187. Sm8900 ( talk) 19:36, 13 January 2020 (UTC) have already created large numbers of categories here. thanks. reply
  188. Terasaface ( talk) 02:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC) Mostly working on BLP of artists and craftspeople and getting proper categories for those reply
  189. TuorEladar ( talk) 21:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC) Userboxes and/or BLPs. Also, a little bit of everything. reply
  190. Ds2320 ( talk)
  191. Kingdom(Hearts)Come ( talk) 03:22, 16 July 2020 (UTC) I’m a member of the Uncat Task Force. I enjoy it, and I’m glad to help in other ways for categorization. reply
  192. Em-mustapha talk 06:15, 25 July 2020 (UTC) I'm interested in this. reply
  193. Maka, the Two Star Meister! ( talk· ) 17:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC) reply
  194. Johnnie Bob ( talk) 17:43, 28 August 2020 (UTC) Mostly interested in computing categories. reply
  195. Mario Jump 83! 11:06, 3 October 2020 (UTC) Tropical cyclone and COVID-19 categories reply
  196. History DMZ ( talk)+( ping) 09:30, 12 October 2020 (UTC) Interested in categories related to biographies, media and the arts. reply
  197. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 06:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC) How did I not discover this project sooner? I love editing categories. reply
  198. KConWiki ( talk) 17:25, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply
  199. Dege31 ( talk) 22:34, 11 January 2021 (UTC) reply
  200. Est. 2021 ( talk · contribs) 03:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC) reply
  201. ScottishNardualElf ( talk) 14:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC) - Mostly interested in political/historical figures or occasionally things related to IT. reply
  202. Aerin17 ( talk) 19:09, 12 April 2021 (UTC) reply
  203. DB1729 ( talk) 09:55, 6 June 2021 (UTC) reply
  204. Ken Tony Shall we discuss? 18:06, 20 July 2021 (UTC) reply
  205. Catfurball ( talk) 17:03, 21 July 2021 (UTC) I might as well add myself to this project, since I've created so many categories for these useboxes. reply
  206. Technical-restriction-time ( talk) 15:54, 29 July 2021 (UTC) I like categories (especially for queer/lgbt+ stuff) reply
  207. Niftysquirrel ( talk) 18:40, 29 July 2021 (UTC) I enjoy working on Uncat and general category cleanup. reply
  208. Shellwood ( talk) 11:50, 2 August 2021 (UTC) Mostly trying to reduce the backlog at Special:WantedCategories reply
  209. Aster 72000 ( talk) 19:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)I have interest in multiple subjects especially in biography, religion, History and Geography. reply
  210. Isabelle0934 ( talk) 22:12, 21 August 2021 (UTC) 👍👍👍 reply
  211. ~ CatMan149 ( talk) 23:37, 26 March 2022 (UTC) I just think categorization is simple and fun, despite how boring it sounds. I also like copy editing and disambiguation. reply
  212. Feralcateater000 ( talk) 14:57, 4 April 2022 (UTC) I like adding pages to categories and have made some categories for bivalve pages reply
  213. Kravk ( talk) 01:53, 11 May 2022 (UTC) I like helping out with the backlog of uncategorized pages. I've created a couple categories, too. Always willing to learn. reply
  214. KaraLG84 ( talk) 10:27, 3 June 2022 (UTC) I've added and remove pages from existing categories in the past and recently learnt how to create new ones, so I thought I'd join. reply
  215. Crowsus ( talk) 10:28, 21 August 2022 (UTC) mainly football, other sports and geographical origin indicators reply
  216. SarahTHunter ( talk) 19:33, 23 October 2022 (BST) categorising sportspeople in cities to their representive sports i.e. tennis players in Paris etc. I'm also working on categorising Paralympic track and field athletes regarding their disability classifications too.
  217. Corqe ( talk) 16:18, 5 December 2022 (UTC) Once I understood how categories functioned in the Commons, I realized how critical they are to finding media effectively. Thanks to tools like HotCat and Cat-a-lot, I find the process fairly engaging and a good use of my time. I'm happy to help! reply
  218. BhamBoi ( talk) 06:39, 4 March 2023 (UTC) I enjoy doing these behind-the-scenes-type changes! reply
  219. Lililolol ( talk) 8:04 , 16 March 2023 (UTC) I just enjoy organizing things.
  220. Demt1298 ( talk) 16:43, 17 March 2023 (UTC) I enjoy working as a WikiGnome reply
  221. DemonStalker ( talk) 05:59, 2 April 2023 (UTC) I like to work with categories in general whether it be uncategorized, overpopulated, incorrectly sorted, etc. reply
  222. TommyBoy-My areas of interest generally include government, politics, law, and geography
  223. Andumé ( talk) 19:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC) Anything that happens to align with my work at WikiProject Stub sorting reply
  224. NatHat2001 ( talk) 03:33, 3 November 2023 (UTC) I'm a baby editor but have a lot of experience on the user side and am eager to help organize. I prefer to work on geography (both physical and human) and anything involving social sciences more broadly. However, just the act of categorization sounds really fun to me so I'm down for anything. reply
  225. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 11:33, 21 December 2023 (UTC) My main interests are sports (particularly tennis and baseball), history, and law. I've been handling categories for a short time only but AM quite keen on organization. Since categories are a key part of Wikipedia, I want to do my part to make it more easy to navigate. reply
  226. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 17:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC), Technical topics, particularly engineering and underwater diving, and related medical and physiology topics, Also marine biology and other scientific topics. Trying to get Wikipedia categorisation to work better as a navigation tool for editors and readers. reply
  227. SmileySnail ( talk) 23:56, 16 January 2024 (UTC) I enjoy organizing stuff, and am willing to work with a wide range of topics. reply
  228. ~  Tom.Reding ( talkdgaf)  16:33, 23 March 2024 (UTC) A bit overdue...! {{ Navseasoncats}}/{{ Category series navigation}} & category tagging/standardization. reply
  229. Kravk ( talk) 15:27, 21 April 2024 (UTC) New categories, new subcategories, uncategorized pages...whatever strikes my fancy, especially women's history. I just love sorting! :) reply
  230. Flemmish Nietzsche ( talk) 02:32, 25 April 2024 (UTC) Just finished up reorganizing the categories for all pages in the topic category Iran and I'd like to contribute more in removing articles from topic categories where they shouldn't be. reply
  231. Malimaan ( talk) 20:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC) I just love to sort things, so I do what I can to help. Mostly working on the backlog of uncategorised stuff. reply

Removed participants (signatures relocated)

  1. Cravin Chillies 11:24, 29 August 2017 (UTC). Interested in categorisation as a means of system navigation. (user blocked) reply
  2. Tommy Doyle 00:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC) (user blocked) reply
  3. Vijayabhaskar02 New categories will be added by my research and will contribute to the community in all aspects. 17:42, 3 July 2018 (UTC) (user blocked) reply
  4. Flooded with them hundreds 12:39, 14 November 2018 (UTC) (user banned) reply
  5. Danw2016 ( talk) 02:05, 23 December 2013 (UTC)danw2016 (user blocked) reply
  6. Robert Moore ( talk) 14:28 15 June 2006 (UTC) I usually work on articles or categories involving Dance music, bus transit systems, radio stations, TV show and TV stations. (user blocked)
  7. David Hedlund ( talk) 15:23, 20 May 2014 (UTC) - Overall categorization. (user blocked) reply
  8. Qxukhgiels ( talk) 22:26, 14 August 2014 (UTC) (user retired) reply
  9. Rathfelder ( talk) 12:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC) health, professional organisations and politics mostly. (user banned) reply
  10. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 19:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC) history and religion (user banned) reply
  11. DrStrauss talk 19:43, 14 January 2017 (UTC) - been doing it for a while but haven't actually signed the page! (user blocked) reply
  12. Daphne Lantier ( talk) Biographies of women. (user blocked)
  13. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 13:00, 23 December 2019 (UTC) (user retired) reply
  14. WilliamJE ( talk) 05:52, 16 August 2021 (UTC) I add categories to pages and do cleanup. (user blocked) reply
  15. -- Balkovec ( talk) 12:17, 8 April 2022 (UTC) (user blocked) reply
  16. Thinker78 (talk) 05:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC) I love organizing and categorizing. When I was in middle school I organized my little library (700 books) according to the Dewey Decimal System. A pleasure to help. (user banned) reply
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  1. Greg Robson ( talk) 21:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Project founder
  2. Urthogie ( talk) 03:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC) reply
  3. Circeus ( talk) 03:08, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) Mostly as a constant and unrelented categorist. I'll be glad to help assisting regularizing categorization.
  4. smoddy ( talk) 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC) I plan to tackle cricket's abomination, but would be happy to go further afield. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC)
  5. CQ ( talk) 30 June 2005 20:58 (UTC) | top down, ad hoc bottom up any way that works!
  6. R adiant _>|< July 7, 2005 13:46 (UTC)
  7. Who ?¿? 08:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Overall categorization schemas. I started with all image, X-Men and comics categories. Now for the rest of the tangled web. :) reply
  8. Maurreen (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC) reply
  9. Splash ( talk) 21:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC) I meant to sign here ages ago. reply
  10. Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/ C 08:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC) - Did you know Wikipedia has over 68,000 categories. I hope to pare down some of the redundant and/or underpopulated catgories. reply
  11. Noakesey 12:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Beginner who's obsessed with organising other people's information! reply
  12. Siafu ( talk) 04:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC) reply
  13. Carcharoth ( talk) 22:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Currently working on Category:Disasters which was a disaster but is looking better now. Still learning, but would appreciate any comments. reply
  14. Hiding ( talk) 19:21, 10 September 2005 (UTC) Probably in helping to standardise, although any other areas I could be useful, let me know. (somewhat inactive) reply
  15. Mushroom ( talk) 17:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC) reply
  16. Ze miguel ( talk) 10:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC) reply
  17. Paul ( talk) 02:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Classifying information is my drug. reply
  18. Quaque ( talk) 00:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC) There are a large amount of uncategorized articles out there. I hope to help reduce these. reply
  19. Jake ( talk) 04:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC) I started with Category:Computing, and just kept following links... working on Category:American people and Category:Ancient Romans now... try to get as much as possible across the board subsorted reply
  20. Suryoyo ( talk) 00:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC) - Im more interested on history of middleeast. reply
  21. __earth ( talk) 16:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) - Taking up everything that falls under Category:Southeast Asia. Wish me luck because it's huge! reply
  22. Peter McGinley ( talk) 12:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC) reply
  23. Crystallina ( talk) 06:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC) - Mainly been doing music-related articles, although I'd be glad to branch out. reply
  24. Can't sleep, clown will eat me ( talk) 11:28, 29 January 2006 (UTC) reply
  25. Waggers ( talk) 16:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC) - I've been adding categories to uncategorized articles for a little while; I'll continue to do this, but I'm also interested in cleanup reply
  26. bmills ( talk) 16:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC) — Fixing Category:Computer science and related categories (crossover with WP:COMPSCI). (indefinite leave) reply
  27. Kbdank71 ( talk) 18:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Mainly working cleanup on WP:CFD. reply
  28. Waitak ( talk) 14:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC) Category:Underutilized crops and related. reply
  29. Sam ( talk) 07:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC). Mainly work on categorization and classification policy. reply
  30. Adding cats to articles without cats Wh e re (talk) 01:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC) reply
  31. -- WilliamThweatt ( talk) 21:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Been working on organizing the Languages categories. Starting to sort, tag and organize AustroAsiatic Languages. reply
  32. -- Paleorthid ( talk) 15:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Soil science categories. Developing schema is posted on soil science category talk page. reply
  33. Viriditas | ( talk) 06:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC) reply
  34. ProveIt (talk) 21:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC) I've been working on the Uncategorized Categories list. reply
  35. -- Vir ( talk) 02:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC) I'm interested in general categorization schemes. reply
  36. Museumfreak ( talk) 15:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Thought I'd add myself because I add cats to articles without cats and am doing cleanup and reworking of Category:Public Health reply
  37. JennyRad ( talk) 15:52, 1 June 2006. Have been categorising cheeses and books and am looking at other categories to assist on.
  38. Epolk ( talk) 17:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC) - I will categorize anything but I regularly patrol the Category:Federal government of the United States reply
  39. Recury ( talk) 17:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Mostly Category:Auto racing right now, but will probably work on some of the other automobile-related and sports-related categories later where needed. reply
  40. Brz7 | ( talk) 20:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC) reply
  41. Zorbl e k (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC) I do miscellaneous categorizing, but I'm especially interested in making sure that categories are linked logically. reply
  42. SynergeticMaggot ( talk) 19:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC) reply
  43. utcursch | ( talk)
  44. DGG ( talk) I'm trying to get various library and publishing topics into places that make sense.
  45. Jdclevenger ( talk) 22:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC) General work, pretty random really. A strong interest in food articles. reply
  46. Daniel. ( talk) 08:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC) General work, with strong interest in Anime, Manga and Comics. reply
  47. Hemlock Martinis ( talk) 07:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - I'll be going through Category:Categories requiring diffusion and diffusing the articles in those categories. Current projects include Category:European Union and Category:Lists of office-holders. reply
  48. Fishal ( talk) 15:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC): I guess I like categorizing things. reply
  49. TonyTheTiger ( talk) I have just overhauled Category:Families. TonyTheTiger 17:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC) reply
  50. SMcCandlish [ talk] [ contrib 03:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC) — Working heavily on fixing up the categorization of pool/billiards/snooker articles. reply
  51. EdGl ( talk) 01:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC) I categorize articles without a category. reply
  52. Delta TangoTalk 13:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Always liked categorization, and will always continue categorizing. reply
  53. MChew ( talk) 15:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Working on biographical categorization at present, but will always add as many categories as I feel suitable to non or under categorized articles reply
  54. Obina ( talk) 10:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I am currently adding categories to articles - Very interesting as it often leads me to improving or sometimes proposing deletion. reply
  55. lquilter ( talk) 23:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC) - Librarian; interested in categorization generally. Mostly working within people, legal topic, awards, fiction, and fictional works categories. ... Cleaning up sciences; also " Category:Establishments by year". reply
  56. Sue H. Ping ( talk) 14:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in helping clean out the backlog of articles that don't have categories reply
  57. Melanochromis ( talk) 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in cleaning up and maintaining fish and fishkeeping categories. Will also help with other subjects as needed. reply
  58. Lesnail ( talk) 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Enjoys categorizing things. reply
  59. El on ka 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - Identification of uncategorized articles, and tagging them accordingly reply
  60. Stardust8212 ( talk) 02:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Working the uncategorized task force, specifically uncategorized people reply
  61. Richiar ( talk) - categories and portals and their relationship with articles have been very confusing for me, so if I learn about them, I can help. Areas-design and organization of categories and their relationships to each other, articles and portals
  62. Flubeca ( talk) 16:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC) - Since I was already helping with this. I thought "Why not add my name to the list?" (user retired) reply
  63. SilkTork ( talk) 13:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - I love it. reply
  64. WillyFourEyes ( talk) 17:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC) I like categorization. I'm going to try and add categories to articles relating to video games and cartoons, my areas of "expertise". reply
  65. Lenoxus ( talk) 16:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC) reply
  66. Bencherlite 02:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC) correct categorization of musicians, dealing with overcategorization of people reply
  67. Vinch ( talk) 6:31, 4 April 2007 (IST)
  68. Telly addict 10:37, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Generally helping categorise articles via Category:Uncategorized pages. reply
  69. Kranar drogin 01:23, 9 April 2007 (UTC)Cleaning up Illinois-related categories for WikiProject Illinois. reply
  70. Suncloud 08:35, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Mainly loiter in Special:Uncategorizedpages where I try and categorise pages there, alongside dealing with (or highlighting) the other issues these, often new, pages have. reply
  71. Bu b0y2007 06:13, 20 April 2007 (UTC) (always willing to help and participate) reply
  72. Wizardman 02:18, 30 April 2007 (UTC)--I've done some work with cats before, I'm always available if needed. reply
  73. MFulvio I'm a librarian & a taxonomy manager-- so I'm both familiar with categorization and rather easily excited by it. I'd be delighted to help in this project. Mfulvio 18:41, 4 May 2007 (UTC) reply
  74. The Sunshine Man 14:25, 12 May 2007 (UTC) I regularly categorise articles via Category:Category needed. reply
  75. Werldwayd 06:54, 17 June 2007 (UTC) (I am very organized and am always willing to help in Wikipedia categories) reply
  76. Psych less 23:48, 20 June 2007 (UTC) – I want to help with uncategorized pages, and other categorization tasks reply
  77. Gary King 06:03, 24 June 2007 (UTC) I'm cleaning up uncategorized pages. reply
  78. Yamaka122 16:53, 28 June 2007 (UTC) reply
  79. Lord Sesshomaru 00:12, 29 June 2007 (UTC) Wish I had known about this WikiProject sooner. Glad to help whenever possible. reply
  80. Dbiel ( Talk) 09:08, 3 July 2007 (UTC) would like to take a stab at the school related categories. reply
  81. CaveatLector Talk 15:42, 9 July 2007 (UTC) Categories help organize Wikipedia in a way that aids navigation and therefore research. On that note, I'd like to work on making superfluous lists into more defined and useful categories. reply
  82. AchedDamiman All A-Z.
  83. Shruti14 22:12, 2 August 2007 (UTC) good WP reply
  84. Acs4b T C U 03:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC) - As I do not have a general area to contribute to, it will just be a mixture of practically everything. Categories are essential but play a crucial role on Wikipedia. Plus, I did not realise until just recently that categorisation can be interesting and fun but not stressful at times. reply
  85. elmindreda 03:23, 16 August 2007 (UTC) - I categorise anything, but mostly people (using Special:Uncategorizedpages). reply
  86. Tirkfl talk 14:24, 20 August 2007 (UTC) - From time to time, when I feel like organising something, I do some categorising — mainly articles on people and science. reply
  87. Cgingold 00:00, 24 September 2007 (UTC) I just discovered that this project exists, so I guess I may as well make it "official", seeing as I'm already doing a good deal of work in this area. reply
  88. MrBoo ( talk, contribs) 14:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC) reply
  89. Kathleen.wright5 05:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC) reply
  90. Severa ( !!!) 13:18, 18 October 2007 (UTC) I'm most interested in diffusing overpopulated categories and attempting to create navigable categorization schemes. reply
  91. Shinobigai( !!!) 15:18EST, 28 October 2007 ~~~~ IM interested in anime, martial arts, linguistics, Scifi, and aviation
  92. wooerfara3661 10:03, 7 November 2007 (UTC) reply
  93. Jon Ace 20:59, 7 November 2007 (UTC) Random categorizer reply
  94. Gueneverey ( talk) 22:18, 18 November 2007 (UTC) I just found out this WikiProject exists, but I've been categorizing folk music related articles for some time now. reply
  95. Jw21/Penalty Killah VANucks|12-9-2 04:31, 4 December 2007 (UTC) You won't believe how messed up it is, especially when you edit articles on consumer electronics... reply
  96. Doczilla ( talk) 03:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC) A lot of CfDs. reply
  97. Grk1011 ( talk) 23:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC) I like to categorize music related articles reply
  98. -- JustJimDandy ( talk) 19:06, 21 February 2008 (UTC) reply
  99. FeanorStar7 ( talk) 00:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC) --primarily adding birth and death categories to bios; trying to be systematic; right now in the 1610s; also working on the uncategorized pages category reply
  100. i123Pie bio contribs 18:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC) reply
  101. Rotovia ( talk) 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC) Linking Australian articles, particually Australian poltical articles reply
  102. Megata Sanshiro ( talk) 15:40, 13 April 2008 (UTC) sorting video game and video game company articles. reply
  103. Stepheng3 ( talk) 20:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC) categorizing (or deleting) everything in Special:UncategorizedCategories except for Category:Contents. reply
  104. BillyMassie ( talk) Billy Massie ( talk) 05:22, 29 April 2008 (UTC) reply
  105. Mdebets ( talk) 11:31, 8 May 2008 (UTC) reply
  106. -- Wulf Isebrand ( talk) 00:26, 12 May 2008 (UTC) I'm currently categorizing articles at Category:German-Americans and some other "Fooian-American" categories. Categories are an important aspect of Wikipedia and the best way to organize it. reply
  107. Arsenikk (talk) 21:28, 20 May 2008 (UTC) -- primarily related to the Nordic Countries, transport and business. reply
  108. THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 17:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC) I have been working on categories off and on for some time. I try to find ungrouped subcategories that lack a overarching category, and place articles in more appropriate categories. I also try to reorganize categories to eliminate "endless do loops" in category tree structures, which include overcategorizing individual articles with nested categories. I mostly work on categories related to articles and topics I have knowledge in. However, I'm happy to assist in any area.  :) reply
  109. Shooke ( talk) 19:01, 1 July 2008 (UTC) would be helpful because I've been working categorizing in other wikimedia projects, :D reply
  110. Dakinijones I've mostly been working over in spirituality/religion
  111. Mycroft7 ( talk) 17:32, 4 July 2008 (UTC) I've mostly been sorting categories relating to New York City and Long Island. reply
  112. Skittleys ( talk) 17:45, 7 July 2008 (UTC) I enjoy diffusing large categories and finding homes for uncategorized articles :) though I pretty much do anything I can. reply
  113. Anik Ghosh ( talk) 17:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC) reply
  114. Victor Lopes ( talk) 22:29, 5 October 2008 (UTC) I work for the Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized. I usually work populating categories and improving the categorization of articles about most topics. reply
  115. TwentiethApril1986 (want to talk?) 15:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Created Category:Number-one albums in the United Kingdom and currently populating it. reply
  116. -- --musicalmeg20 ( talk) 05:57, 22 November 2008 (UTC) Currently working on uncategorized pages. reply
  117. EmanWilm ( talk) 18:42, 30 November 2008 (UTC) Currently deleting red-link categories in reverse order (Z-A) and working for Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized reply
  118. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 23:01, 9 December 2008 (UTC) - active at Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized. reply
  119. -- Alan Liefting ( talk) - 05:01, 17 December 2008 (UTC) - A great project. I have been removing templates and user pages form article space categories, creating country specific sub-categories where approp, sorting large categories into sub-categories, and removing inapprop articles from high level categories. I spend a lot of time messing about with articles under Category:Environment. reply
  120. Animist ( talk) 11:19, 27 December 2008 (UTC), I have interest in relevant categorization of articles and categories themselves, in completeness and redundancy checks of needed list of wiki categories. I'm an active member of the Russian language Wikipedia categorization project, but it often leads me to check the correspondence between categorization trees in en-wiki and ru-wiki with further mutual edits. Hope that soon with a toolserver account it will be simpler for me to automate this comparison. reply
  121. Scarykitty ( talk) 02:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC), category geek. Focus on uncategorized articles and LGBT articles. reply
  122. Saeed.Veradi ( talk) 20:31, 27 February 2009 (UTC) reply
  123. Skullers ( talk) 14:47, 3 April 2009 (UTC) reply
  124. MuffledThud ( talk) 16:50, 29 April 2009 (UTC) joining the long march toward Total Categorization reply
  125. Unionhawk Talk E-mail 00:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC) - Active elsewhere in the project as well. reply
  126. Declan Clam ( talk) 23:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC) currently beefing up underpopulated categories reply
  127. Pknkly Struggling with documenting Chicago Project's categorization scheme Pknkly ( talk) 22:05, 30 September 2009 (UTC) reply
  128. Familiae Watts I like to keep my house in order; categorisation keeps Wikipedia manageable.
  129. Gosox( 55)( 55) 03:10, 13 January 2010 (UTC), specializing in American History, Literature, and Politics. reply
  130. mheart ( talk) 02:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC) WikiProject Category sorting revivalist-turned-dedicated WikiProject Categories member. Music category and diffusion specialization. reply
  131. AusTerrapin ( talk) 16:45, 4 July 2010 (UTC) primary focus on Orders, Decorations and Medals but will also delve into awards, history (particularly military history), and biographical related information. I like to ensure a category schema are coherent webs of logically structured categories that enhance navigation around the subject area in accordance with information management and human memory retrieval principles. reply
  132. McLerristarr /  Mclay1 14:02, 14 October 2010 (UTC) – I'm currently categorisation categories, especially redirect categories and, since yesterday, public domain-related categories. reply
  133. thisisace ( talk) 21:44, 20 November 2010 (UTC) reply
  134. TiMike ( talk) 03:13, 8 January 2011 (UTC) - I'd like to help, I primarily focus on the articles that have no categories. reply
  135. Shire Reeve ( talk) 08:21, 17 February 2011 (UTC) - Focusing for now on uncategorised stubs. reply
  136. Miraculousrandomness ( talk) 19:09, 5 March 2011 (UTC) reply
  137. Mr Sheep Measham ( talk) 06:16, 27 April 2011 (UTC) I'd like to help, I normally focus on uncategorised articles. reply
  138. Dobry 18:02, 2 May 2011 (UTC) ( talk) I'm intersted in categories about journalism and media
  139. Siddhartha Ghai ( talk) 23:19, 5 July 2011 (UTC) reply
  140. -- Assassin'S Creed (talk) 02:19, 23 July 2011 (UTC) reply
  141. JoshCool776 ( talk) 19:26 14 October 2011 (UTC) - Adding categories on other articles.
  142. STSC ( talk) 22:19, 9 November 2011 (UTC) - General re-organizing mis-placed categories. reply
  143. Byrappa
  144. Andrew (User:90) (talk) - Especially interested in U.S. counties
  145. extra999 ( talk) 16:12, 12 March 2012 (UTC) reply
  146. Andrewaskew ( talk) 03:29, 17 September 2012 (UTC) - Social sciences, particularly sociology, media studies, studies in religion, reply
  147. Thegreatgrabber (talk) contribs 14:07, 29 October 2012 (UTC) - General maintenance, reply
  148. P4z ( talk) 04:50, 3 November 2012 (UTC) - I would like to help categorizing Wikipedia pages. reply
  149. Djr13 ( talk) 00:10, 4 November 2012 (UTC) - starting out with maintenance and improvement of category:IWW ("categorize now, categorize right!") reply
  150. Radio15dude ( talk) 00:15, 14 December 2012 (UTC) - Starting out with maintaining the Cold War Category and its subcategories. reply
  151. Mercurywoodrose ( talk) 18:22, 21 January 2013 (UTC) - I have been working for about a year on categories, particularly Category:San Francisco Bay Area (organizing and creating new categories), and have populated Category:Individual physical objects with subcats that were appropriate. Lots of other cat work as well. I am thus a de facto member (:I'll leave it to others to say if i am a GOOD member:) reply
  152. Fortdj33 ( talk) 12:41, 24 April 2013 (UTC) - I have been concentrating on {{ WikiProject Film}} articles lately, making sure that the articles are categorized as specifically as possible, removing redundant categories, and updating all stub-class articles with the appropriate stub tags. reply
  153. Joeldbenson ( talk) 17:19, 1 May 2013 (UTC) - Seem's I stumbled into helping categorize computer networking articles reply
  154. Sm8900 ( talk) 13:42, 5 June 2013 (UTC) broad categorization and overall categorization system. reply
  155. Allforrous ( talk) 22:39, 5 July 2013 (UTC) reply
  156. Diptanshu Talk 20:18, 21 January 2014 (UTC) I work primarily in the domains of WP:MED and related WikiProjects. Normally I look up the individual articles in a given category, make edits to the articles as required, add main article for the given category, assign the category to respective WikiProject(s), assign uncategorised articles to suitable categories and reassign categories as required. reply
  157. Anastasia ( talk) 19:47, 21 February 2014 (UTC) As a new page patroller, I try to categorize as many pages as possible :) reply
  158. MrLinkinPark333 MrLinkinPark333 ( talk) 00:09, 28 March 2014 (UTC) - I am beginning working through the uncategorized pages. reply
  159. Categlory ( talk) 17:38, 9 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  160. Mr. Yondris Ferguson ( Leave a Comment) 09:07, 24 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  161. Auresque ( talk) 05:08, 4 October 2014 (UTC) reply
  162. I dream of horses ( T) @ 20:28, 29 March 2015 (UTC) A random page patroller who often changes the categorization of the pages she lands on. reply
  163. yoyo ( talk) 03:16, 24 June 2015 (UTC) I'm interested in making the categories as simply useful to readers as possible. More particularly, my current focus is on getting articles that explain surgical terminology well categorised. reply
  164. —⁠ 烏⁠Γ ( kaw), 08:12, 23 October 2015 (UTC) reply
  165. Gabeiglesia ( talk) 09 December 2015 (UTC)
  166. Robevans123 ( talk) 20:29, 4 January 2016 (UTC) - specialities - railways, local history, Wales, backlog clearing reply
  167. Marcocapelle ( talk) 12:36, 17 January 2016 (UTC) - main interests are history and religion but in fact I join category discussions about almost anything. My most frequent edit summary in articles is "removed (grand)parent category of ...", which is in line with Wikipedia:Categorization#Subcategorization. reply
  168. Fadesga ( talk) 11:19, 3 February 2016 (UTC) - translation, linguistics, architecture, Uruguay. reply
  169. Nocowardsoulismine ( talk) 15:58, 6 March 2016 (UTC) - I mainly work on India-related categories. reply
  170. JonathanDP81 ( talk | contribs) 16:21, 21 April 2016 (UTC) reply
  171. User:Iazyges Roman or Byzantine military stuff.
  172. Ayub407 talk 07:52, 16 August 2016 (UTC) reply
  173. Fixuture ( talk) 13:13, 2 January 2017 (UTC) I'm creating many new categories with most of them relating to emerging technologies, science fiction and the Information Age and also categorize undercategorized pages. I couldn't work without the HotCat gadget. I think the category system is an integral part of Wikipedia that allows all kinds of research/journalistic endeavors and visualizations. reply
  174. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 04:21, 25 January 2017 (UTC) reply
  175. Hazarasp ( talk) 08:03, 4 June 2017 (UTC) reply
  176. Soulbust ( talk) 09:10, 18 July 2017 (UTC) reply
  177. Wilhelmina Will - I gather I had not joined this project prior to today. Well, now I have! A lot of good editing can happen in ten years. ( talk) 20:08, 22 August 2017 (UTC) reply
  178. The Gnome ( talk) 17:57, 4 January 2018 (UTC) Everything that is relevant to categorization, but particularly the fields of biography; economics; and military history. reply
  179.  Buaidh  18:01, 7 February 2018 (UTC) reply
  180. Masterfireheart ( talk) 16:40, 12 February 2018 (UTC) Interested in music/software related articles, but I'm willing to help around anywhere. reply
  181. DavidRideout ( talk) 22:23, 24 August 2018 (UTC) I am interested in the distinction between set and topic categories. reply
  182. — AfroThundr ( u · t · c) 15:14, 8 September 2018 (UTC) Might as well, as much as I've played with categories. reply
  183. ElanHR ( talk) 21:15, 30 October 2018 (UTC) Broken ontologies break my heart. :( Adds topic/set templates and fixes inconsistent super/subcat semantics when applicable. reply
  184. Sm8900 glad to be here. -- Sm8900 ( talk) 17:22, 20 November 2018 (UTC) reply
  185. Wei4Green · 唯绿远大 14:36, 22 October 2019 (UTC): I'm currently focusing on userbox categorization. reply
  186. Ahlam.othman ( talk) 02:26, 20 December 2019 (UTC) reply
  187. Sm8900 ( talk) 19:36, 13 January 2020 (UTC) have already created large numbers of categories here. thanks. reply
  188. Terasaface ( talk) 02:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC) Mostly working on BLP of artists and craftspeople and getting proper categories for those reply
  189. TuorEladar ( talk) 21:40, 21 April 2020 (UTC) Userboxes and/or BLPs. Also, a little bit of everything. reply
  190. Ds2320 ( talk)
  191. Kingdom(Hearts)Come ( talk) 03:22, 16 July 2020 (UTC) I’m a member of the Uncat Task Force. I enjoy it, and I’m glad to help in other ways for categorization. reply
  192. Em-mustapha talk 06:15, 25 July 2020 (UTC) I'm interested in this. reply
  193. Maka, the Two Star Meister! ( talk· ) 17:07, 23 August 2020 (UTC) reply
  194. Johnnie Bob ( talk) 17:43, 28 August 2020 (UTC) Mostly interested in computing categories. reply
  195. Mario Jump 83! 11:06, 3 October 2020 (UTC) Tropical cyclone and COVID-19 categories reply
  196. History DMZ ( talk)+( ping) 09:30, 12 October 2020 (UTC) Interested in categories related to biographies, media and the arts. reply
  197. Scorpions13256 ( talk) 06:11, 13 October 2020 (UTC) How did I not discover this project sooner? I love editing categories. reply
  198. KConWiki ( talk) 17:25, 30 November 2020 (UTC) reply
  199. Dege31 ( talk) 22:34, 11 January 2021 (UTC) reply
  200. Est. 2021 ( talk · contribs) 03:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC) reply
  201. ScottishNardualElf ( talk) 14:18, 18 February 2021 (UTC) - Mostly interested in political/historical figures or occasionally things related to IT. reply
  202. Aerin17 ( talk) 19:09, 12 April 2021 (UTC) reply
  203. DB1729 ( talk) 09:55, 6 June 2021 (UTC) reply
  204. Ken Tony Shall we discuss? 18:06, 20 July 2021 (UTC) reply
  205. Catfurball ( talk) 17:03, 21 July 2021 (UTC) I might as well add myself to this project, since I've created so many categories for these useboxes. reply
  206. Technical-restriction-time ( talk) 15:54, 29 July 2021 (UTC) I like categories (especially for queer/lgbt+ stuff) reply
  207. Niftysquirrel ( talk) 18:40, 29 July 2021 (UTC) I enjoy working on Uncat and general category cleanup. reply
  208. Shellwood ( talk) 11:50, 2 August 2021 (UTC) Mostly trying to reduce the backlog at Special:WantedCategories reply
  209. Aster 72000 ( talk) 19:27, 3 August 2021 (UTC)I have interest in multiple subjects especially in biography, religion, History and Geography. reply
  210. Isabelle0934 ( talk) 22:12, 21 August 2021 (UTC) 👍👍👍 reply
  211. ~ CatMan149 ( talk) 23:37, 26 March 2022 (UTC) I just think categorization is simple and fun, despite how boring it sounds. I also like copy editing and disambiguation. reply
  212. Feralcateater000 ( talk) 14:57, 4 April 2022 (UTC) I like adding pages to categories and have made some categories for bivalve pages reply
  213. Kravk ( talk) 01:53, 11 May 2022 (UTC) I like helping out with the backlog of uncategorized pages. I've created a couple categories, too. Always willing to learn. reply
  214. KaraLG84 ( talk) 10:27, 3 June 2022 (UTC) I've added and remove pages from existing categories in the past and recently learnt how to create new ones, so I thought I'd join. reply
  215. Crowsus ( talk) 10:28, 21 August 2022 (UTC) mainly football, other sports and geographical origin indicators reply
  216. SarahTHunter ( talk) 19:33, 23 October 2022 (BST) categorising sportspeople in cities to their representive sports i.e. tennis players in Paris etc. I'm also working on categorising Paralympic track and field athletes regarding their disability classifications too.
  217. Corqe ( talk) 16:18, 5 December 2022 (UTC) Once I understood how categories functioned in the Commons, I realized how critical they are to finding media effectively. Thanks to tools like HotCat and Cat-a-lot, I find the process fairly engaging and a good use of my time. I'm happy to help! reply
  218. BhamBoi ( talk) 06:39, 4 March 2023 (UTC) I enjoy doing these behind-the-scenes-type changes! reply
  219. Lililolol ( talk) 8:04 , 16 March 2023 (UTC) I just enjoy organizing things.
  220. Demt1298 ( talk) 16:43, 17 March 2023 (UTC) I enjoy working as a WikiGnome reply
  221. DemonStalker ( talk) 05:59, 2 April 2023 (UTC) I like to work with categories in general whether it be uncategorized, overpopulated, incorrectly sorted, etc. reply
  222. TommyBoy-My areas of interest generally include government, politics, law, and geography
  223. Andumé ( talk) 19:41, 9 October 2023 (UTC) Anything that happens to align with my work at WikiProject Stub sorting reply
  224. NatHat2001 ( talk) 03:33, 3 November 2023 (UTC) I'm a baby editor but have a lot of experience on the user side and am eager to help organize. I prefer to work on geography (both physical and human) and anything involving social sciences more broadly. However, just the act of categorization sounds really fun to me so I'm down for anything. reply
  225. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 11:33, 21 December 2023 (UTC) My main interests are sports (particularly tennis and baseball), history, and law. I've been handling categories for a short time only but AM quite keen on organization. Since categories are a key part of Wikipedia, I want to do my part to make it more easy to navigate. reply
  226. · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 17:29, 3 January 2024 (UTC), Technical topics, particularly engineering and underwater diving, and related medical and physiology topics, Also marine biology and other scientific topics. Trying to get Wikipedia categorisation to work better as a navigation tool for editors and readers. reply
  227. SmileySnail ( talk) 23:56, 16 January 2024 (UTC) I enjoy organizing stuff, and am willing to work with a wide range of topics. reply
  228. ~  Tom.Reding ( talkdgaf)  16:33, 23 March 2024 (UTC) A bit overdue...! {{ Navseasoncats}}/{{ Category series navigation}} & category tagging/standardization. reply
  229. Kravk ( talk) 15:27, 21 April 2024 (UTC) New categories, new subcategories, uncategorized pages...whatever strikes my fancy, especially women's history. I just love sorting! :) reply
  230. Flemmish Nietzsche ( talk) 02:32, 25 April 2024 (UTC) Just finished up reorganizing the categories for all pages in the topic category Iran and I'd like to contribute more in removing articles from topic categories where they shouldn't be. reply
  231. Malimaan ( talk) 20:17, 28 April 2024 (UTC) I just love to sort things, so I do what I can to help. Mostly working on the backlog of uncategorised stuff. reply

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  1. Cravin Chillies 11:24, 29 August 2017 (UTC). Interested in categorisation as a means of system navigation. (user blocked) reply
  2. Tommy Doyle 00:35, 27 February 2018 (UTC) (user blocked) reply
  3. Vijayabhaskar02 New categories will be added by my research and will contribute to the community in all aspects. 17:42, 3 July 2018 (UTC) (user blocked) reply
  4. Flooded with them hundreds 12:39, 14 November 2018 (UTC) (user banned) reply
  5. Danw2016 ( talk) 02:05, 23 December 2013 (UTC)danw2016 (user blocked) reply
  6. Robert Moore ( talk) 14:28 15 June 2006 (UTC) I usually work on articles or categories involving Dance music, bus transit systems, radio stations, TV show and TV stations. (user blocked)
  7. David Hedlund ( talk) 15:23, 20 May 2014 (UTC) - Overall categorization. (user blocked) reply
  8. Qxukhgiels ( talk) 22:26, 14 August 2014 (UTC) (user retired) reply
  9. Rathfelder ( talk) 12:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC) health, professional organisations and politics mostly. (user banned) reply
  10. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 19:44, 20 January 2016 (UTC) history and religion (user banned) reply
  11. DrStrauss talk 19:43, 14 January 2017 (UTC) - been doing it for a while but haven't actually signed the page! (user blocked) reply
  12. Daphne Lantier ( talk) Biographies of women. (user blocked)
  13. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSA talk 13:00, 23 December 2019 (UTC) (user retired) reply
  14. WilliamJE ( talk) 05:52, 16 August 2021 (UTC) I add categories to pages and do cleanup. (user blocked) reply
  15. -- Balkovec ( talk) 12:17, 8 April 2022 (UTC) (user blocked) reply
  16. Thinker78 (talk) 05:30, 24 November 2023 (UTC) I love organizing and categorizing. When I was in middle school I organized my little library (700 books) according to the Dewey Decimal System. A pleasure to help. (user banned) reply

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