" Without a healthy and diverse community of participants, the quality of our content will suffer."

I think this is a fair criticism. I don't know if I'd agree with it. But it points to a bigger issue: no one has any data on this issue. We were supposed to have a reader conversion task force, but it seemed to fall apart. So no one has actually been able to point to instances where diversity has undermined Wikimedia's content quality. Maybe they're out there, but nobody has given it an honest search.

Mind you, it's safe to say that a lack of diversity may be undermining Wikimedia's growth. There's only so many young middle class white guys in the world.

Randomran05:34, 5 May 2010