Wikiversity talk:Recruitment

"Commitment is measured by the time volunteers put into the projects" <-- I assume that the assumption here is that the more time spent the more committed. Trying to attract and keep editors who spend a large amount of time editing is fine, but the point of a wiki project is that everyone contributes according to their own schedule and even small contributions are welcome. Editors can be very committed to the project but also very busy in the "real world". --JWSchmidt 13:29, 24 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree with you. It is not the recruit, but the recruiter who will be judged by the commitment of the recruit he recruited. Perhaps i should make that more clear.--Daanschr 15:12, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Forum recruitment?
I'm running accross a lot of forums that I would like to recruit people from, but don't know if it is appropreate to spam them. We should try to come up with an generalized approch for certain situations, like:


 * Wikias
 * Forums
 * Particular people
 * Email lists
 * Real university bulliten boards
 * Banners for personal websites

Try to fingure out a standardized method of determining when a group or person should be contacted (without spamming) and deelop standardized web banners/flyers/posts/emails--Rayc 06:41, 25 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Having standardized web banners/flyers/posts/emails would be very useful.


 * You are right about your concern on spamming.
 * Instead of annoying people, we should make them enthusiastic about Wikiversity. This means that Wikiversity needs to offer people something they want to be part of. We should try to recruit people for those projects which could be appealing, without losing what Wikiversity stands for. The more diversity Wikiversity has to offer, the more people can be attracted. I wanted to start a marketing department with the main aim to let Wikiversity grow. The marketing department will support projects that have a chance to strengthen Wikiversity.
 * The recruiter need to invest time in convincing people to join. Just sending standard information about Wikiversity will not be enough. Recruiters need to socialize with those they want to recruit. The best recruiter is the one who already belongs to the group that Wikiversity tries to reach. The marketing department can support recruiters by constantly improving advertisements, reasons for joining Wikiversity. Recruiters need to develop their own tactics. Standardized methods can easily fail. Recruiters can learn from eachother of course to make their performance better.


 * We can start to discuss which projects of Wikiversity can be appealing and where we can start with recruiting. The marketing department can emerge from this talk page, if the recruitment becomes a success.


 * There are too little people interested in recruiting at the moment, so i fear that we will not be able to get much recruits.--Daanschr 16:05, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Isn't that a paradox? We'll never get recruiters if we don't recruit. But to recruit we need recruiters.--Rayc 04:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A certain minimum amount of interested people is needed to get this project running.
 * It would be an idea to replace this recruitment section to Meta-Wiki. I have some projects running on Wikipedia that are not doing very well, just like many other projects.--Daanschr 11:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)