User:Czar/Craft

Interviews focused on the craft of writing encyclopedia articles (trials & tribulations, tools and references, editing environment)

Topics

 * List of Wikipedians by featured article nominations
 * WikiJournal of Humanities
 * WikiProject Quality Article Improvement/Precious
 * WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week


 * Wikipedia Signpost/Newsroom/Resources
 * Wikipedia Signpost/Series/WikiProject report

Potential questions
These are just some questions to start. The idea is to have a few rounds of follow-up (if not a live chat) to write a fuller profile on you as an editor. Skip anything that doesn't resonate with you.


 * What is your best work? (And what makes it so?)
 * How did you come into this work? (What led you to it?)
 * Of the article's source material, which were the most striking and what about it? Did you find anything interesting that you discarded or couldn't use?
 * How did you plan or pace out the project? To what degree did you follow the plan, or did anything unexpected happen?
 * What sources do not exist on this topic that should? (What are its known gaps and missing perspectives, based on the extant source material?)
 * How did you plan or pace out the project? To what degree did you follow the plan, or did anything unexpected happen?
 * What sources do not exist on this topic that should? (What are its known gaps and missing perspectives, based on the extant source material?)
 * What sources do not exist on this topic that should? (What are its known gaps and missing perspectives, based on the extant source material?)
 * What sources do not exist on this topic that should? (What are its known gaps and missing perspectives, based on the extant source material?)


 * When an otherwise experienced editor enters your topic area for the first time, what will they notice or question about its standards? (e.g., structure, sourcing, collaboration method)
 * What systemic gaps in coverage exist in your topic area? Who is writing the secondary sources to address it?
 * How do you write? I.e., apart from the standard browser setup, what editing habits/tools or research techniques are part of your process? (scripts, software, physical reference, interpersonal connections) 
 * What reference works or features do you use most often?
 * What lessons/readings have been most illuminating for you as a writer?
 * How does your writing/editing differ from your peers?
 * Do you work closely with any other editors, and how does your relationship work?
 * Has there been a time that you've been fearful to contribute to Wikipedia?
 * What editors do you admire, if any, and what about?
 * What editors have been most influential on your style/technique?
 * To what extent are you involved/interested in non-writing aspects of the encyclopedia? (gnoming, behavioral discipline, cleanup, content disputes, WikiProjects)
 * What advice would you give to an editor upon finishing their first WP writing project?
 * Upload a photo of your desk/workspace?
 * (Feel free to expand below on whatever you'd like)
 * Has there been a time that you've been fearful to contribute to Wikipedia?
 * What editors do you admire, if any, and what about?
 * What editors have been most influential on your style/technique?
 * To what extent are you involved/interested in non-writing aspects of the encyclopedia? (gnoming, behavioral discipline, cleanup, content disputes, WikiProjects)
 * What advice would you give to an editor upon finishing their first WP writing project?
 * Upload a photo of your desk/workspace?
 * (Feel free to expand below on whatever you'd like)
 * What advice would you give to an editor upon finishing their first WP writing project?
 * Upload a photo of your desk/workspace?
 * (Feel free to expand below on whatever you'd like)
 * Upload a photo of your desk/workspace?
 * (Feel free to expand below on whatever you'd like)
 * (Feel free to expand below on whatever you'd like)

c.f.

 * VF "My Desk"
 * Paris Review interviews
 * TCI questions