At the recent gendergap strategy retreat the issue of racial demographics was briefly brought up but no one had any numbers on it, so we didn't know if it was an actual issue or not. Anecdotal evidence suggests there is also a "racial gap" among editors, but it would be nice to have some numbers on this to facilitate discussion. I did some digging and the only statistics I could find were about the racial demographics of American readers (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_Wikipedia_reader_demographics). It seems that none of our editor surveys have asked about race, although we've asked almost every other demographic question imaginable.
Does anyone know of any research or statistics related to the racial demographics of Wikipedia editors?
If not, should we consider doing a micro-survey as was done for gender recently? (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Gender_micro-survey)
Ryan Kaldari