[Foundation-l] A question for American Wikimedians

[Nathan]

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> The short answer: Wikipedia editors are volunteers and African-Americans
> rarely volunteer.
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> The medium answer: African-American editors often edit only articles
> which relate to African-American and do that in a point of view way.
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> The long answer: large blocks of African-American are oppressed,
> unemployed, poorly educated, and computer illiterate. Those that are
> educated and prosperous tend to be too busy, and as said, are not in the
> habit of volunteering.
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> Another matter, although lip service is paid, few African-Americans have
> an interest in Africa, at least not enough to read and edit Wikipedia.
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> African-Americans who live in ghettos in the inner city do bear some
> resemblance to Roma, the educated not so much; they are generally not
> entreprenurial as Roma are; they tend to take salaried jobs.
>
> All that said, we need to be as welcoming as possible, create good
> Wikipedia editing projects for them to plug into, and reach out when the
> opportunity arises.
>
> Fred Bauder
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>
...Wow. Maybe you can follow Phoebe's example and cite some evidence?