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

We seem to agree that some level of diversity is critical for quality, and that we should aim for more diversity than we already have.

Your point seems to be that we should be realistic in regards to our expectations over what level of diversity is possible or even desirable. If that's a fair representation of your point, then I agree with it.

However, I think your analysis of leisure time is too simplistic. Over 10 million people visit FarmVille on Facebook every single day, and they are not all young, single men. You might argue that those people are not the type of people we'd want contributing to Wikimedia, although I'm not sure there's hard evidence of that either. Anecdotally, I know several people who play FarmVille regularly who would be great Wikimedia contributors.

The biggest point I'd like to make is that we shouldn't make the current diversity of our contributors for granted. We can make a difference. It starts by making a strong statement that diversity is important, then by following through on the low-hanging fruit for improving it. Moreover, let's be systematic in testing ideas and measuring their impact. It's easy to have opinions about all of these potential measures. Let's try them and see the actual impact, so that we're not just relying on opinions.

Eekim21:38, 11 May 2010

Well if not the quality of wikipedia, User: 146.155.21.158 has certainly made a impact on some of the quality of wikimedia and to thank him making the community in Talk:Strategic Plan/Movement Priorties more 'healthy and diverse' I will thank and also keep people healthy by offering piping hot chicken with extra helping of Wiki:Love. Mcjakeqcool Mcjakeqcool 23:38, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Mcjakeqcool23:38, 28 February 2011