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 <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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
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