Wikipedia:Snuggle/Work log/Archive Aug13

Tuesday, August 27th
Hey guys. It's been a really long time since I made my last update. I went off to Wikimania and then jumped into my thesis as soon as I got back to the research lab, but I want to assure you that I've been very busy with Snuggle. I've been working with TheOriginalSoni to organize a round of interviews with wiki mentors. (If you're on the Snuggle sign-up list and I haven't asked you for an interview yet, you'll get a request soon.) There are three questions that I hope this round of interviews will help me answer:
 * 1) Does Snuggle actually help people discover newcomers in need of help?
 * 2) Do mentors want to go look for the newcomers themselves?
 * 3) What actions do people want to perform inside of Snuggle?

I've gotten a lot of good feedback and gained some insights into the work patterns that Snuggle needs to support. I've been making some paper-based sketches of some more substantial changes to Snuggle's design that I think will help support the work patterns better. I hope to make some updates with a digital version of those sketches in the next couple of days. For now, I'm jumping back into transcribing interviews and writing up my thesis. --EpochFail (talk &bull; contribs) 14:24, 27 August 2013 (UTC)