[WikiEN-l] Where are the basic demographics on contributors?

[Casey Brown]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Carl Beckhorn <cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I expect that any site with as many active editors as English Wikipedia
> should have good statistical data about members - age, sex, race,
> nationality, and income distributions, among other things. Where can I
> find these statistics for English Wikipedia?  I expect the Foundation
> has at some point retained an independent polling firm to obtain this
> data, right?
>
>  - Carl

Soon.  The Foundation is planning a global survey of contributors and
readers[0], set to be released to the public soon.  (It is currently
being translated.[1])

[0]http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/UNU_survey_agreement
[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/General_Survey_Translation

-- 
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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