That article in the New York Times seems to describe the view of a curious outsider's view on hard-core Wikipedians personally, and it does seem a bit stereotyped, but since I wasn't at the conference I can only guess.

Some of us are discussing the idea that WMF Programs & Evaluation could evaluate Wikimania, the Wikimedia Conference, and the annual hackathon in the future. More info at [1]

Pine (Trying a new email address to see if it handles discussions better)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Evaluation/Parlor/Dialogue#Sugge...