User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-25

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) 19:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) Articles you are interested in.
 * 2) How do you decide which articles to work on?
 * I mainly edit articles I find while casually browsing or researching. Sometimes I'll also set out to check if topics that interest me are covered. Anjwalker   Talk 04:50, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

WikiProjects somewhat, though sadly for the time being no WikiProject exists for the topic I love most (poultry) and my efforts to start one have met with little interest - so that area is limited for the time being. Otherwise, nothing really.
 * 1) Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?

Articles on poultry and history and also my homeland (Australia) are my focus and what interests me most.
 * 1) What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?

Around 14 hours a week, give or take a few hours depending on if I was researching something at the time or not.
 * 1) How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?

I most often browse them casually, and check out the articles that interest me which it lists as stubs. If I think I can help with the article, I do some editing.
 * 1) When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?

Whether or not it is of a topic that really interests me. Sometimes, because that week I may have corrected a spelling mistake in a miscellaneous article etc, it will give me suggestions relating to that topic which don't interest me; that is the only time I dislike suggestions from SuggestBot.
 * 1) What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?

I must admit I don't understand this question?
 * 1) We have recently run an experiment where we added information about the suggested articles, in your case icons similar to these ones: Stars310.svg Icon of three people in different shades of grey.svg
 * 2) How did you interpret the information?

It was of little concern to me, as I just edit articles no matter their popularity and viewing numbers, but I'm sure it could be more useful to someone who likes to focus on well-read articles.
 * 1) How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?


 * 1) What other types of information would be helpful?
 * 2) 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!