Jodi,<div><br></div><div>You&#39;ve asked an excellent question and I&#39;m sad to say that I don&#39;t think you&#39;ll find a good answer.</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;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 (<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_recruitment">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_recruitment</a> and <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRAG">http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SRAG</a>).</div>

<div><br></div><div>We&#39;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 :) </div>

<div><br></div><div>-Aaron<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Jodi Schneider <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jodi.schneider@deri.org">jodi.schneider@deri.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

What are the recommended ways to recruit Wikipedians for a research study?<br>
<br>
My thoughts are:<br>
<br>
Specific recruitment (i.e. to particular populations/randomized samples):<br>
- email?<br>
- Talk page messages?<br>
<br>
Generic recruitment:<br>
- post to the Village Pump<br>
- post to the appropriate project mailing list(s)<br>
<br>
Does that seem right?<br>
<br>
Anybody willing to share successful email/Talk page messages (offlist is fine)? I&#39;m particularly concerned about giving sufficient info, tone, and not being spammy (perhaps a hard balance to hit!).<br>
<br>
-Jodi<br>
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