Ben Collier wrote:
Hello,
I’m part of a team at Carnegie Mellon University that is studying the
Request for Adminship process and would like to run a survey on RfA
voters. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to successfully solicit
for users to take a survey without being intrusive? Any suggestions at
all on conducting the survey within Wikipedia would be helpful.
You can announce your survey in places like WP:VP, WP:AN or WP:RFAdmin
talk. You could try framing your survey as a Request for Comments, but
at least part of it would have to be public.
All of that is much easier if you are a Wikipedia contributor. The more
active and estabilished you are, the more things you can do that a
n00bie or IP could get warned/banned for...
You could try to enlist help from one of the estabilished editors/admins
who are interested in such issues; NoSeptember comes to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NoSeptember/The_NoSeptember_Admin_Project
There is no dedicated place for scholarly surveys, such proposals have
been discussed but never gained enough interest to become a policy. Some
time ago I've collected all known survey-related links at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Survey_(disambiguation)
If I missed something, I hope that contributors of this list will add it
there.
Do check the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Admin_survey
By the way, Ben, I am from Uni of Pitt, so if at some point you want to
meet and chat f2f about researching Wikipedia, let me know :)
--
Piotr Konieczny
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in
theory."