User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-23

As part of our current research study we would like to know a bit more about you and your involvement on Wikipedia and your use of SuggestBot. Your participation is voluntary, meaning you are free to not answer any questions or withdraw at any time. You can find more information about the study and contact information in the consent information sheet. To respond you can edit this page and write the answers below the questions like it was a talk page. If you wish to submit your answers in private you can email us directly.

If you have questions about any part of this, feel free to let us know. I (User:Nettrom) am the researcher responsible for the project and I’ve got this page on my watchlist so I can respond fairly quickly. I might also stop by to ask some follow-up questions, e.g. to clarify if there was something I could not understand. Regards, Nettrom (talk) 19:02, 20 June 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) Articles you are interested in.
 * 2) How do you decide which articles to work on?
 * I focus on more marginal articles, or potential articles, which i have some knowledge of, even if its a news article or a book, record, etc by the subject. I particularly like working on articles from a book or record, esp. for that item, or to add that item to an existing article, or use info from the item to build up an article (album notes, etc).


 * 1) Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
 * WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area is helpful in finding stubs to expand. redlinks in articles is really important, along with discovering a potential article name appearing a number of times already.


 * 1) What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
 * reviewing SFBA project to find articles i may know about as a bay area native. articles for deletion is fun to participate in. creating navboxes for authors/cities/etc is fun, as is creating new categories.


 * 1) How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
 * at least an hour a day.


 * 1) When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
 * at first, i looked up all of them. mostly i ignore them now, as they often give me article i have worked on, and in any case my focus is more focussed than at first, which often involved hitting the random article button.


 * 1) What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
 * if its a suggestion that i can recognize as tangential to something i have an interest in or worked on, but hadnt been aware of.


 * 1) We have recently run an experiment where we added information about the suggested articles, in your case icons similar to this one: Icon of three people in different shades of grey.svg
 * 2) How did you interpret the information?
 * i hadnt noticed it yet, i will look for it now, and may get back to you.


 * 1) How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?
 * n/a


 * 1) What other types of information would be helpful?
 * what you just added sounds useful. maybe when the article was created? or how many edits its had.


 * 1) Do you have suggestions for how to improve SuggestBot? It could be specific types of articles or work you would like to see added, things that need to be improved, or anything else for that matter. Let us know what we should work on!
 * For now, not much, but your asking my feedback is helpful to remind me this could evolve into a very useful service, esp. if i stay involved and try to use it again/more.