http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/10/wikipedia-editors-do-it-for-fun-first-results-of-our-2011-editor-survey/

Also, interesting statistics on ages, with 30 plus almost as large as 12-29 year olds.

Plus this note:

As has been discussed recently, it is an important priority for the Wikimedia movement to progressively add diversity to our community.  We have set targets in our strategy for greater participation of women and for rapid growth in the Global South.  These actions seek to both increase the size of the community (our goal is to grow to 200,000 by 2015) and to bring important new knowledge to our projects.

I had a bit of trouble figuring out what the targets and strategy for increasing participation are, however.

Thoughts?

Also, let me extend a mea culpa for doing too little on the couple things I've felt strongly about: letters to recruit new members and promoting Wikiquette Alerts.  It would help if the list focused a bit more on tasks to motivate us to conceive and carry out whatever projects are of most interest to us.

But you can take the weekend off - I will... '-)

Carol in DC