User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-29

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) 19:07, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

1. Articles you are interested in.
   1. How do you decide which articles to work on?

      I have a certain plan I follow, although I occasionally deviate to work on other random subjects, for variety's sake.

   2. Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?

      I follow Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia/Article alerts and various cleanup listings, as well as posts at WT:RUSSIA.

   3. What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?

      I like working on rather obscure topics, as well as on things few other people would work on due to systemic bias issues.

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

   Too much :)

3. When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?

   I always look them over, but not necessarily act on them. Most of the stuff the bot finds is already on my to-do list, but occasionally it surprises me with something I've missed. Even then, I'd normally put such findings on my to-do list and may not act on them until much later.

4. What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?

   Probably its relevance. I don't normally work on topics unrelated to Russia in one way or another, so some of the suggestions are of very little use to me. All in all, however, the bot is pretty good at what it does—I don't ever recall receiving completely useless lists!

5. We have recently run an experiment where we added information about the suggested articles, in your case icons similar to this one:
   1. How did you interpret the information?

      I don't really pay attention to the stars and other metadata in those listings.

   2. How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?

      I didn't.

   3. What other types of information would be helpful?

      Nothing really comes to mind; sorry.

6. 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!

   I don't have any suggestions at the moment, but rest assured, I will definitely let you know if I think of something that could be useful. Thanks for your work with the bot—it may not be ideal, but it certainly has great potential!