[WikiEN-l] Where are the basic demographics on contributors?

[Philippe Beaudette]

Jonas,

You couldn't be any farther from the truth.

Collecting demographics are critical to the long-term sustainability  
of the organization and the project.  From them, you can do  
appropriate fundraising targeting, project planning, and make growth- 
oriented decisions with hard data to back them up.

_____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Tulsa, OK
philippebeaudette at gmail.com




On Jul 25, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Jonas Rand wrote:

> Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> I expect that any site with as many active editors as English  
>> Wikipedia
>> should have good statistical data about members - age, sex, race,
>> nationality, and income distributions, among other things. Where  
>> can I
>> find these statistics for English Wikipedia?  I expect the Foundation
>> has at some point retained an independent polling firm to obtain this
>> data, right?
>>
>> - Carl
>
> I don't want to seem rude, but I don't think that anyone cares about  
> the
> demographics of Wikipedia. It doesn't matter.
>
> Jonas