"subjects" is definitely typical, but in my experience and conversations (mostly at this years wikisym and wikimania) wikipedians feel more comfortable with "participants" and i try to use it where it doesn't confuse/dilute.

On 10/19/10 1:08 PM, Luca de Alfaro wrote:

No, no! "Informants" are the kind that needs FBI protection! :)

"subjects" is the usual words, "human guinea-pigs" would be less ambiguous, but... :)

Luca

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 02:00, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> 2010/10/18 Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org>:
>>subject-matter recruitment
>
> OK, this is definitely the last time I made this typo. I mean
> recruiting subjects for research projects. :-)

May we redefine it as something like "recruiting informants for
research projects"? My first parsing of "subjects" is "topics" and I
don't think that I am alone in that.

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