diversity

I'm going to actually dispute this, while trying to find data: The quilting community (they're hot on my mind right now because they do online community building really really really well, and I went with Jay Walsh to a quilting show this weekend to see how it happens IRL) does a tremendous amount of stuff online: and their demographic is almost exactly opposite ours. When you hold the two against each other, I'm not sure the "no time/more time" argument holds water. :)

but Yeah, we need data.

Yeah, I freely admit that I'm going on "common sense", which is often wrong. I'm pretty busy these days. But let's try to find some data to understand what a reasonable level of parity might look like.

I was really disappointed to see the statistics for Wikipedia only centered around "life" statistics: age, sex, relationship status, etc. There were no statistics for ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or ( a big one) socioeconomic status.

I even noticed when I setup my information for this part of the site ( I am new), there was no place for them to collect almost any information. It's extremely hard to analyze information that is not being collected. It could just look like this(all optional to answer):

Would you like to tell us more about yourself? What is your Ethnic back ground? What would you consider your race? If you have a religion, what is it? What is your level of income?

I think we'd all like to see more stats like these. And I think there are opportunities for many groups, not just the Wikimedia Foundation, to do this type of research. For example, most of the current stats were collected by UNU-MERIT, an external organization. I think it was a good first effort with many opportunities for improvement.

A great example of research done with the Foundation and some folks on this wiki collaborating is the Former Contributors Survey Results. I would love to see many more folks organizing research efforts like these.