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." _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
