Jodi,
You've asked an excellent question and I'm sad to say that I don't think
you'll find a good answer.
I've been working with the foundation and other interested editors to
produce a policy for recruiting research participants (on and off as I have
time) over the last year. You can see the current state of our work on meta
(
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_recruitment and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRAG).
We'd appreciate your help and ideas. It would be immensely helpful if you
could give us a list of the questions you have about recruiting subjects.
You could be our starting point for an FAQ :)
-Aaron
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Jodi Schneider <jodi.schneider(a)deri.org>wrote;wrote:
What are the recommended ways to recruit Wikipedians
for a research study?
My thoughts are:
Specific recruitment (i.e. to particular populations/randomized samples):
- email?
- Talk page messages?
Generic recruitment:
- post to the Village Pump
- post to the appropriate project mailing list(s)
Does that seem right?
Anybody willing to share successful email/Talk page messages (offlist is
fine)? I'm particularly concerned about giving sufficient info, tone, and
not being spammy (perhaps a hard balance to hit!).
-Jodi
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