On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
As far as the profile requirement, it does require you to "upgrade" your google account to a google plus account. Most of us have google accounts through our wikimedia.org google mail and the required pieces of information for a google plus "upgrade" are gender and birthday, and those aren't shared.
Actually, the vast majority of people on this list are not staff and so can't be assumed to have a Google account.
-Chad