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
Dear Jodi and all!
I hope that you are fine.
Here there is a wiki page listing suggestions on how to develop a research in a way that respects Wikimedia community principles: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_good_practices_on_Wikipedia_research
Hopeing is useful! Have a nice day, Mayo
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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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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@deri.orgwrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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