In order to help non-proi� ts recruit volunteers with special-ized knowledge we propose LeadWise, a system that uses social media bots to recruit and guide contributions from ex-perts to assist non-proi� ts in reaching their goals. We test the feasibility of using the system to recruit specialized vol-unteers for Wikipedia. We focus in particular on experts who can help Wikipedia in its objective of reducing the gen-der gap by covering more women in its articles. Results from our i� rst pilot show that LeadWise was able to obtain a noteworthy number of expert participants in a two week period with limited requests to targeted specialists.
['Claudia Flores-Saviaga', 'Saiph Savage', 'Dario Taraborelli']
LeadWise: Using Online Bots to Recruite and Guide Expert Volunteers