User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-61

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) 19:26, 18 July 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) Articles you are interested in.
 * 2) How do you decide which articles to work on?
 * You mean in general, apart from SB suggestions? Several ways: when I'm looking at AfD, I'll review/research for the article under discussion to see if I can improve it or contribute meaningfully to the discussion; or, I'll run across an article looking for something else and see that it needs a little work; or, as I'm reverting vandalism, I might find an article that needs work once I'm done reverting the current vandal edit; or, looking up something, I'll run across an article or link to another article where some editing seems warranted; or, I work quite a bit with the Food and Drink Project, adding photos to articles.


 * 1) Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
 * One would be WikiProjects.


 * 1) What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
 * I have liked researching references for a long time and find that very interesting. I also very much like finding, creating and adding photos or images that help articles become more interesting and appealing.


 * 1) How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
 * Probably 10 -15.


 * 1) When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
 * Look at them fairly soon after posting. Start working throught the list, reviewing the articles and deciding which ones interest me.


 * 1) What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
 * Can't think of a specific.


 * 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!
 * Seems OK as it is just now. Nothing comes to mind. Geoff  Who, me?  20:28, 18 July 2012 (UTC)