contributors
People who help
Contributors are people who give something toward a common purpose—money to a cause, articles to a publication, code to a software project, ideas to a discussion.
The term emphasizes participation in a collective effort rather than sole authorship: The museum thanked its generous contributors, She's a regular contributor to the magazine.
In online contexts, contributors often work without payment, building wikis, open-source projects, or community resources.
Givers of aid
- patronsRegular supporters or customers
- sponsorsFunders seeking promotion
- backersFinancial supporters
- philanthropistsGenerous supporters of good causes
funders · supporters · investors · underwriters · financiers · givers · grantmakers · subscribers
Unpaid willing workers
- membersPeople in an organization
- participantsThose actively involved
- activistsPeople working for causes
- organizersThose who coordinate activities
crowdsourcing · forum · network · collective · guild · circle · grassroots · maintainers
Joint creators of text
- coworkersPeople at same job
- partnersJoint venture participants
- teammatesFellow squad members
- colleaguesProfessional associates
peers · associates · assistants · helpers · aides · deputies · accomplices · confederates
Text composition professionals
- artistsMakers of creative works
- creatorsOnes who originate
- authorsCreators of written works
- composersCreators of musical works
designers · inventors · innovators · originators · visionaries · thinkers · architects · developers
benefactors
Givers of aid
philanthropists · funders · supporters · investors · underwriters · financiers · givers · grantmakers · subscribers · pledgers
volunteers
Unpaid willing workers
- membersPeople in an organization
- participantsThose actively involved
- activistsPeople working for causes
organizers · crowdsourcing · forum · network · collective · guild · circle · grassroots · maintainers · moderators
coauthors
Joint creators of text
colleagues · peers · associates · assistants · helpers · aides · deputies · accomplices · confederates · cohorts
writers
Text composition professionals
composers · designers · inventors · innovators · originators · visionaries · thinkers · architects · developers · producers
- contributorscollaborators, helpers, supporters, volunteers, assistants
- groupsteam, teams, group, club, clubs
- backerssupporters, backers, sponsors, patrons, funders
- fundingfunding, grant, loan, grants, venture capital
- media peoplejournalists, journalist, reporters, reporter, editors
- collaboration toolsco-authoring, co-writing, collaborative editing, document sharing, real-time editing
contributorsrecipients
Those who receive
beneficiaries · takers · receivers · consumers · withdrawers
contributorsbystanders
People present but uninvolved
spectators · observers · onlookers · free riders · freeloaders
contributorssaboteurs
Intentional disruptors of operations
detractors · destroyers · obstructors · underminers · hindrances
- individual contributor
- hidden contributorsUnacknowledged participants in success