QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Sat 11th July 2009, 6:29pm)
The whole point of an advisory council is to provide new perspectives. Look outside yourself for once, Wikipedia.
Indeed, it is traditional for an advisory council to be comprised almost entirely of outsiders. The people on this council, some of them at least, are outsiders in the sense that they're not Carriers of the Holy Blessing of the Almighty Jimbo. But they're still very much insiders of the Wiki-Experience.
Surely there are online communities with expertise they're willing to share? Oh, wait, I forget: Wikipedia is unlike anything that ever came before and cannot possibly learn anything from the experiences of these other places. My mistake.