User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-79

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) 15:53, 23 July 2012 (UTC)


 * 1) Articles you are interested in.
 * 2) How do you decide which articles to work on?
 * 3) Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
 * 4) What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
 * 5) How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
 * 6) When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
 * 7) What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
 * 8) 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
 * 9) How did you interpret the information?
 * 10) How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?
 * 11) What other types of information would be helpful?
 * 12) 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!

answers
1 Articles you are interested in.
 * 1 How do you decide which articles to work on?
 * I start with my area of expertise...tennis and its tennis project. I also read the main page articles of the day and when one is interesting I may click links, that go to other links that go to a page that needs some help.
 * 2 Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
 * as above with wikiprojects to. Sometimes I do a google search on a topic "let's say on exploring mars" which leads me to wiki and reading an article. I see some errors and fix them or comment on the talk page.
 * 3 What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
 * any tennis topics, helping out on merges, adding new photos for photo-less bios.

2 How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
 * maybe 10 hours.

3 When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
 * I tend to check the tennis and merge articles first, otherwise it usually needs to be something that interests me.

4 What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
 * I depends when I look. If I have limited time I disregard stubs as too much work. I do look at adding sources but again it has to interest me at least a little bit.

5 We have recently run an experiment where we added information about the suggested articles, in your case icons similar to these ones:
 * 1 How did you interpret the information?
 * I never really pay attention to the low-high heads. The stars I assumed were poor to good quality articles as rated by wikipedia.
 * 2 How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?
 * I really didn't care about any rating at all when deciding to edit.
 * 3 What other types of information would be helpful?
 * It seems fine as is and gives me a few things to do that I otherwise would never have known about. I guess it would be nice that if I did the three merge suggestions (or decided that the talk on the subject wasn't sufficient yet to warrant a merge) if there was a button I could click to add three more. I hope this helps. Fyunck(click) (talk) 07:26, 4 August 2012 (UTC)