On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.comwrote:
Eugene's post is too long for me to snip but it's basically what I would have said if I was in my usual verbose mood.
Basically, I went through a similar thing on strategy wiki selecting the "official members" of the Living People Task Force. After discussion with Cary and Philippe, we went with three men and three women of various strategic targeting levels and it worked out that the selection provided me valuable input in facilitating the project. I think that, when it matters, Wikimedians do not care about gender/race/orientation. I'm a straight male about to turn twenty-nine, I'm definitely not in the majority of the userbase, but I am in the target consumer usage base. Additionally, based on my offline life experience, we absolutely value female userbase as compared to the outside world in the US. Just my opinion there. -- ~Keegan
I should clarify, "a target usage base".