Fewer than 1% of all readers contribute to the Wikimedia projects. This small group of individuals is predominately male, with advanced graduate degrees, between the ages of 18-30, and single. As such, several groups are under-represented in the community, including: women, subject-matter experts in specific fields, older adults, and those with less formal education.

Wikimedia's mission—which encourages the free sharing in the sum of all knowledge—appears to require that as many individuals as possible contribute what they know to the projects. The goal of this task force is to develop a strategy for converting readers into editors and to identify groups with a high potential to add value to the Wikimedia projects.

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Organizing proposals relevant to reader conversion