[Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

[Steven Walling]

(To my knowledge) no one has an answer to this question that is backed by
rigorous research. This is one vital demographic question to ask, but just
looking at the sparse (self-selected) Category at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African_American_Wikipedians is not
really evidence that we're "exclusively" white. We really need to study it
more.

Also, point of quibbling as an American: not looking to argue about it, but
Obama is generally thought of as African American, as it says in the second
sentence of his en.wiki article. It might offend people if you try and say
our President isn't black.

Steven

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> For some time I am a bit puzzled by the fact that I don't know any
> African American Wikimedian. For some time just because I am living in
> a European country without African population, so everything seemed to
> me quite normal for a long time.
>
> I tried to make a parallel between Roma people and African Americans,
> but it is not a good one. It is very hard to find a Roma with
> university degree. At the other side, two former State Secretaries are
> African Americans and present US president is almost, too.
>
> What are the reasons? Why American Wikimedian community is exclusively
> white?
>
> Maybe the answer to that question would give us an idea what should we
> solve to get more contributors.
>
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