Hi everyone...
I'm Christine, and i'm an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. I work in the Community Department in Reader Relations. I'm particularly interested in issues surrounding new editors and am following several initiatives we've got going to try and increase our numbers of editors in general. I'm a fairly infrequent editor on the projects as a volunteer.
I'm also a graduate student in Applied Anthropology, writing my thesis on Stakeholder Relations in Web 2.0. It's a fancy way of saying i'm studying how online communities interface with the company (or companies) who own/run their web homes. I'm not studying Wikipedia in particular, but i think the information i'm gathering will be useful to all different kinds of online communities.
Looking forward to the discussions on the list!
-christine
--------- Christine Moellenberndt Community Associate Wikimedia Foundation
christine@wikimedia.org