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<p><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Survey_2011</a></p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Unless I didn't read it correctly, the profile of a Wikipedia
editor, as documented in this survey, is rather peculiar. The
interesting news - most editors are above 30, a bit older than
usually assumed, and yet most of them are completely single
(neither married nor have a girlfriend, and yes, of course, 91%
are men), and most of them don't have children. Even though most
of them are well-educated, most don't work full-time and 40% don't
work at all. I don't know how to treat the results of this survey,
because the profile of the "average Wikipedian" is so defined,
that anything else must result from this profile, even before we
deal with the environment Wikipedia itself creates.</p>
<p>Disclosure - I myself am a single man with no children, above 30,
with an academic degree and with no permanent job; but, following
Groucho Marx's philosophy, I tend to suspect clubs that are
willing to accept people like me, and so many of them too...</p>
<p>Dror K<br>
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