User:SuggestBot/Interviews/User-92

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) 15:15, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

1. Articles you are interested in.
   1. How do you decide which articles to work on?
      1. Often I read a news article on a new species or medical result, and want to make sure Wikipedia is not behind the times.
   2. Are there certain features of Wikipedia that help you make these decisions, e.g. recent changes, community portal, WikiProjects, etc?
      1. Not really. Ideally if I could have access to a list of articles with trending interest by page views I would edit those.
   3. What kind of things to do on Wikipedia do you find most interesting?
      1. Encylopedization. Cleaning up well-meaning but tortured prose. Creating/improving articles on topics mentioned in the popular press.
2. How much time (in hours per week) do you generally spend on Wikipedia?
   1. 1. A lot less these days.
3. When SuggestBot has posted suggestions to you, what do you do with them?
   1. 1. Glance over them, read any I don't recognize.
4. What makes a specific suggestion from SuggestBot good or bad for you?
   1. 1. Good, serendipity. Bad, fixation on topics that I actually would rather bring to AfD or merge than edit--SuggestBot could notice that I am applying negative templates to articles.
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
      1. Didn't notice them, they need more color. Also, they are clearly miscalibrated; there is no way an ordinary high school is three people.
   2. How did you use that information when thinking about the suggestions?
      1. I didn't, because there aren't enough levels. There should be five levels, each representing 10x pageviews of the previous level.
   3. What other types of information would be helpful?
      1. Somehow show increase in views.
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!
   1. 1. Use some metric, such as the type of articles I create, to improve suggestions. Downgrade topics which I add cleanup tags to, since that means I don't want to clean up that sort of article. Abductive (reasoning) 02:27, 21 August 2012 (UTC)